Another small rise in house prices in December suggests the extremely backward-looking data are still capturing a slowdown in price growth following the October peak in mortgage rates. That’s mainly due to the fact Case-Shiller house price index uses a three-month average, therefore it won’t fully reflect the fall in mortgage rates at the end of last year until February, where we would expect a reacceleration in prices.
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