There were further indications that housing market activity is at least no longer accelerating in April, with mortgage approvals dropping for the second consecutive month and some measures of house price inflation easing. But that is certainly not the case across all housing market measures, and further action by the Bank of England to cool the market remains a distinct possibility.
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