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The HomeOwners Alliance - the lobby group which last month strongly criticised estate agents over an alleged failure to display fees - says its latest survey shows concern growing across the country over rising house prices.

Despite talk about the London bubble, worries about high house prices and the shortage of housing has become a national issue, said Paula Higgins, the HOA chief executive.

Talk about the housing crisis has spread across the UK, as homeowners everywhere have become worried that housing is becoming unaffordable and owning their own home is becoming an impossible dream for young people. This is the true cost of living' fear - people can't afford the roof over their head claims Higgins.

The group - which says it champions the interests of Britain's homeowners and aspiring homeowners by lobbying for the interests of homeowners and aspiring homeowners in government and campaigning against bad practices in industry - conducted its latest survey by contacting 2,527 adults in mid-March.

Other key findings from the survey include:

  • Ability for first-time buyers to get onto the property ladder and saving for a deposit topping the list of housing concerns with over 85 per cent saying they were serious problems;
  • The housing crisis is most acute in London, with more Londoners saying house prices (55 per cent) and housing availability (44 per cent) are very serious problems;
  • But nonetheless the appetite to own a home is on the rise (68 per cent of non-owners indicate they would like to own in the future up from 65 per cent in January 2013);
  • Nearly two thirds say that stamp duty rates are a problem;
  • More than half of homeowners say that gazumping is a problem.

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