February’s jump in the Halifax price measure was an outlier in a gloomy run of housing data, so it wasn’t a surprise that this has been partly reversed. The March figure is more in line with a backdrop of falling demand and weak sentiment, and broadly supports our view of modest UK house price rises in 2019.
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