<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/848eef36-4b78-4a0b-9dca-b9024aada4de/F44A122B-87E4-4BE8-B4A0-0229443018E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece" href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">business.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece"><P> The number of mortgages approved for house purchase fell in August for the first time in 10 months, new figures showed today, in a sign of the continued fragility of the property market. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece"><P> A spate of recent data had suggested an upturn in the battered property market. Hometrack, the property data company, revealed the annual drop in house prices in England and Wales had slowed to its lowest level in a year. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece"> economists have warned about the continued fragility of the market and other data has been less positive. Last week, HM Revenue & Customs reported a drop in the number of property sales in August while the Council of Mortgage Lenders revealed that new mortgage lending in August fell from July. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece"> the upside continues to be limited by unfavourable economic fundamentals and tight credit conditions. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6853578.ece">They also revealed that consumers paid down unsecured debt at the fastest rate since records began in 1993 as concerns about the economy and job losses continued to weigh heavily. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F44A122B-87E4-4BE8-B4A0-0229443018E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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