Round-up │ 14 December 2014

In Briefing pages: (Economic) House prices wobble in November, including in London and the South East; the start of a trend│(Corporate) Barratt volumes surge (they're playing down house price inflation) • Latest Balfour Beatty trading statement makes more comforting reading  │ (Industrial and political) more movement on HS2 as Sir David Higgins climbs onto footplate