The decline in the Halifax house price index is further evidence that the housing market recovery took a backward step at the turn of the year. It is possible that temporary factors mean that recent data overstate the true extent of the weakness. Even so, the data do nothing to change our view that the economic outlook is too weak to sustain the recovery in house prices.
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