Land Registry figures show a 0.2% rise in April, leaving the annual rate of inflation at 8.5%, the highest that number's been since September 2007. In London the monthly figure's 1.6%, and annual inflation's at 14.8%.... not the kind of number we expected to see a year ago. Turnover? Sales were 26% higher across the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2009, but to put this in perspective they're still around half of what we were seeing in the years preceding the credit crunch.

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