Posts tagged: House prices

A Fletch skewering...

Monday, 20 August 2018, 9:37 am

Betaville's old boss - Richard Fletcher, now business editor of The Times - does a good job of skewering Rightmove.co.uk this morning and its figures about house prices in August.

Fletch is journalist of the old school, asks tough questions and isn't afraid of handing out huge bollockings, as Betaville found out during our time at The Daily Telegraph. ..

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House price reporting: plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 8:47 am

When I was a young reporter on The Daily Telegraph in the mid noughties working a late shift I was somewhat bamboozled by the first editions of the Daily Mail and The Daily Express.

Why?

Well, that's because the front page (of the main book) of one those newspapers led with a story about how prices are set to soar while the other claimed on the front page (of the main book, too) that houses prices were set to crash...

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