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What does the moderation in London house price inflation mean?

Last night’s Evening Standard headline, “House prices fall in London”, may have stretched the truth. Yet it does appear as though the pace of house price growth in London is at least beginning to slow. Unlike in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, however, this moderation, which also follows a period of outperformance, will not herald a period of catch-up growth in regional house prices. 

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