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House prices fall 1.4 per cent in April
House prices fell 1.4 per cent in April, mortgage lender Halifax said.
That confounded analysts’ forecasts for a rise of 0.1 per cent, and left average prices in the three months to April 3.7 per cent lower than a year earlier.
The average price of a home stood at £160,395 pounds, according to the figures.