Record lending in home market

Thursday 26th January 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

HOUSE prices are expected to rise in Jersey after Islanders borrowed a record £597 million in 2005.

Last year 1,322 properties changed hands in the Royal Court, up from 1,284 sales and lending of £394 million in 2004 and businesses say Jersey’s property market is likely to see an active year ahead.

The figures are revealed in today’s edition of the Jersey Evening Post’s award-winning lifestyle supplement Homelife.


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