Fears that a rise in capital gains tax would rapidly destabilise the fragile house price recovery appear to have been overdone. But the scale of the fiscal squeeze announced by the Chancellor today was, if anything, tougher than had been anticipated. And with no action to address the looming mortgage funding squeeze, further house price falls look more likely than not in the second half of the year.
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