英国房价自2001年初进入新的上涨周期后,3年多时间里连续以每年超过20%的速度增长。为了抑制房地产市场的过分火爆,政府和中央银行从供需两方面入手,采取“双管齐下”的政策和措施,并取得初步成效。到去年8月,房地产市场开始降温,多家抵押贷款银行预计今年英国房价增速将降低至 British housing prices since the beginning of 2001 into the new rising cycle, more than three years in a row more than 20% annual growth rate. In order to curb the over-heated real estate market, the government and the central bank started with the two-pronged approach of supply and demand and adopted the “two-pronged” policies and measures with initial success. By August last year, the real estate market began to cool down. Many mortgage lenders expected the growth rate of UK home prices this year to drop to