A drought in the number of people selling their homes is underpinning the rise in UK house prices, surveyors say.
The proportion reporting rises in house prices rather than falls rose to its highest level in September since the onset of the credit crunch.
But the picture is different in certain parts of the country, a poll for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) found.
Prices have been most buoyant in the south of England, the survey showed.......
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