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The successful applicant should have a minimum of 5 years experience in residential sales and valuations or development appraisals.  An outstanding personality, good communication skills, target driven, professional appearance, well organized, as well as being able to establish a positive working relationship within a team and manage a substantial panel of properties without supervision, would be essential to this job role.

Our working hours are 8:30am – 6:00pm weekdays plus one Saturday morning in 3 from 9:30am – 12:30pm.

Please contact:-

Mrs Joan Seaton
Templeton Robinson
54 High Street
Holywood
BT18 9AJ
028 90 424747
joanseaton@templetonrobinson.co.uk

For an application form to be returned with current CV by 12 noon 19^th March 2010.

Templeton Robinson is an equal opportunity employer and applicants are welcomed regardless of sex, marital status, disability, religious belief or political opinion.

The decision was widely expected by economists, who believe that any rise in the cost of borrowing could damage the UK's fragile economic recovery.

Also as expected, the bank has not pumped any more money into the economy under its quantitative easing (QE) programme - for now at least.

Last month the Bank halted QE, having spent £200bn to boost the economy.

'Mixed picture'

Figures released last week showed that the UK economy grew by 0.3% in the final three months of 2009, compared with an initial estimate of 0.1% growth.

But although the 0.3% growth in the final quarter of 2009 was stronger than previously thought, the Bank believes that continued economic growth is not yet guaranteed.

The October to December period was the first quarter of growth following six consecutive quarters of economic decline - the longest period since comparable figures were first recorded in 1955.

Lee Hopley, chief economist at the EEF engineering employers' group, said the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had little choice given the "mixed economic picture".

"An unchanged position at this point is the right one given the ongoing uncertainty about the strength of the recovery, with the reality that any moves could be on hold for some months to come," he said.

David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said it would be wrong to contemplate raising rates.

"Despite the upward revision to GDP in the fourth quarter of last year, the economy remains weak and fragile. Businesses are still under serious pressure and there is no room for complacency," he said.

"Threats of a double-dip recession are unquestionably more serious in the near future than risks of higher inflation,"

Inflationary pressure

Under QE, the Bank has bought assets in order to boost lending to businesses and individuals by commercial banks.

Capital Economics' senior economist Vicky Redwood said that without QE the UK could still be in recession, although the policy has not worked well enough to kick-start a strong recovery.

"We doubt that the £200bn undertaken so far will be enough to ensure a strong and sustained economic recovery. We still think that the MPC will have to take further action."

But the Bank has said that the full effects of QE will take more time to filter through to the economy.

Many analysts argue that banks have not in fact increased lending as the economy begins to recover. Banks in turn argue that businesses are looking to pay down debt rather than take out new loans.

The Bank must also be wary of the inflationary pressure caused by QE.

The latest inflation figures, released last month, showed the annual inflation rate rising by 3.5% in January, the fastest annual pace for 14 months. This compares with 2.9% the previous month.

As a result, the Bank's governor, Mervyn King, had to write a letter to the chancellor explaining why prices were rising so quickly.

A letter from the governor is required if inflation is more than one percentage point above or below the government's 2% target.

However, Mr King said that the rise in inflation was temporary, and was largely the result of the rise in VAT to 17.5% in January.

The government had reduced VAT to 15% to try to boost consumer spending.

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From spring of last year throughout the company we saw a sharp rise in the number of transactions taking place.  In the majority of cases those sales completing were at very realistic market values due to the pricing structure having gone through a downward corrective period of 30/40% over the previous 18 months.  Secondly and as important there was more access and availability to funding from the majority of lenders.  Moving forward it is paramount for the overall recovery long term that this availability to funding continues and in fact increases on a sensible and balanced level. 

The recovery started which one would expect at the lower end of the market with the majority of deals taking place between the £150,000 and £250,000 price bracket.  With Templeton Robinson’s full coverage right through the pricing ranges we were very encouragingly able to see at the latter part of last year the trend of transactions move up through the middle to even the upper end of the price chain.  This was very evident in November and December which inherently is a very quiet time in the market place when business continued on a very positive upward trend which cemented our view as a whole that the market had been suppressed for such a long time and was beginning to get moving again.

Going forward in 2010 we can already see this positive movement continuing.  Although we don’t see prices starting to increase until more than likely next year we are very confident that the number of transactions successfully completing will continue to rise and this is vital for us all and ultimately will lead to the residential sales prices across the board in Northern Ireland starting to lift. 

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