According to Land Registry data - as decent a way of measuring real house price movements as any - property prices ended the year 1.5% up, having fallen for the seventh successive month in December by 0.2%. As I said, the LR data's good, but it's only as good as national data covering low volume across a regionally variable market can be. So, in London, prices were up 6.2% across the year, while in the north east they dropped 3.3%. For the purposes of the 2010 predictions, we're interested in a national average. Here's what the predictions looked like:

So it's with some pride and a little embarrassment that the Rat and Mouse announces this year's winner is... the Rat and Mouse. We pretty much nailed it, with Zoopla a close second. The drinks are on you.

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