LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices rose in June by 7.8% in annual terms, the weakest increase since July last year, which was immediately after the scaling back of a COVID-19 emergency tax break for house-buyers, official data showed on Wednesday.
June’s increase represented a sharp slowdown from May’s 12.8% annual jump in prices.
The average price of a home in the United Kingdom stood at 286,000 pounds ($346,000), up by 20,000 pounds from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said.
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(Reporting by William Schomberg; editing by David Milliken)
