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House price pressures to ease in 2016

Most of the evidence suggests that prices have become worryingly dependent on record low levels of interest rates. So a period in which prices grow in line with, or preferably by less than, incomes now looks overdue. We expect house prices to rise by 5% this year but by just 2% in both 2016 and 2017.

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