"Martin Ellis" is a former Australian rules football Umpire (AFL)/field umpire in the Australian Football League.

He retired on the 2 September 2008 having umpired a total of 244 career games in the AFL over 13 seasons, including the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

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This pickup in monthly house-price inflation is consistent with the continuing upward trend in market activity in recent months and the previous pattern of house price movements when the Bank of England begins to reduce interest rates.

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Nationally the uppermost sector of the residential property market has held up relatively well with the 26% fall in sales of £1m properties comparing with a 36% decline in total house sales between the first halves of 2004 and 2005.

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The UK housing market is set for a period of broad stability... low single digit growth is expected to be the norm across most of the country.

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Council tax bills are growing significantly faster than inflation.

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The UK housing market is set for a period of broad stability, with house prices forecast to rise by 3%, broadly in line with the predicted rise in retail price inflation.

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The buoyancy of both the housing and mortgage markets indicates that the marked slowdown in the world economy and the recession in the UK manufacturing sector have so far had little adverse impact on consumer sentiment.

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The annual percentage increase in house prices nationally in 2005 was the smallest for 10 years.

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