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Regional and national data continued to show declining sales rates and falling prices until April 2009 and there was little positive media coverage on the market until May, when reports of “green shoots” in the London market started to appear in the press. It has often been the case historically that London in general, and central London in particular, is ahead of the wider regional and national markets in terms of market and pricing trends.

Against a backcloth of deepening recession, company failure and growing unemployment, The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee made successive cuts of 0.5% points at its meetings on 8th January, 5th February and 5th March 2009. This took the Official Bank Rate from 2% at the end of 2008  to just 0.5% in March 2009, the lowest rate since records began in 1694. This had a significant impact on reducing the monthly repayments of mortgage holders with tracker mortgages, but with banks still reluctant to lend, it had little impact on the all important first-time buyers.

In Midtown, City and Docklands the resurgence in the market has been underpinned by buyers with significant equity stakes and outright cash buyers. The reduction in the Bank Rate was of only marginal significance to this group of purchasers. On the other hand the reduction in the Bank Rate to 0.5% by early March had a positive effect on general market confidence in Midtown, City and Docklands.

Britain is experiencing a deeper recession than other countries because of the relative size of the country’s financial sector, finance minister Alistair Darling said Tuesday as he tried to deflect criticism of the government for the scale of the economic crisis.

“Because we have such a large financial services sector and also because of the nature of our housing market, we were bound to be affected to a greater extent than some countries,” Darling told a committee of the House of Lords.

Darling’s comments followed last week’s prediction from the IMF that Britain’s recession would be deeper than elsewhere. It forecast that Britain’s economy would contract by 2.8 percent this year, which would be the country’s worst performance since the 1930s, and more than the 2.5 percent predicted for Germany and the 1.6 percent penciled in for U.S.

In his last set of forecasts in November last year, Darling predicted that the British economy would contract by between only 0.75-1.25 percent and insisted that Britain was in a better position than other countries to weather the storm emanating from the seizing up of credit markets and the near collapse of the global banking system.

He is expected to downgrade his 2009 forecast in March or April when he delivers the Budget and will no doubt face criticism for underplaying the scale of the recession. Britain officially entered into recession — considered to be two consecutive quarters of negative growth — in the fourth quarter of 2008 when figures showed that it contracted by a massive 1.5 percent from the previous three month period.