House prices
The price of the average house rose 0.7 per cent in the second quarter of the year, according to the Nationwide Building Society. The largest increase, 2.9 per cent, was in the North and North-west. Only Scotland and Northern Ireland saw annual increases in property prices, of 6 per cent each. London registered the largest annual fall, 9.6 per cent.
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