The small 0.1% m/m rise in the Nationwide measure of house prices in July shows that higher mortgage rates since the start of the Iran war continued to constrain house price growth. And with the recent rebound in swap rates limiting the coming falls in mortgage rates, we suspect house prices will eke out only small monthly gains over the rest of this year.
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