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Published online 8 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031006-3

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Physicists predict Christmas crisis for UK housing market

Property trouble ahead in Britain but not United States, suggest growth and wobbles.

"Mayhem may be in store" for the British property market, say scientists in California1. They claim to see the "unmistakable signature of a strong unsustainable bubble" in UK house prices, which could burst around the end of this year.

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