Confidence grows as house prices keep on creeping upwards to £160,758 average

HOUSE prices in the north are still creeping upwards, with the market showing what experts claim is "confidence and resilience", a new report claims.

Consumer sentiment may be mixed elsewhere, but a healthy 5.8 per cent hike on average property prices over the summer suggests that the uncertainty about those wider macro-economy concerns may be diminishing, according to Ulster University's latest quarterly house price index. (November 2017)