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House price expectations turn negative

Consumers now expect house prices to fall 2% over the next 12-months, the first negative reading since 2011. That will cut the amount buyers are willing to pay and, alongside a drop in rents, supports our below-consensus call for annual house price growth to bottom-out at around -4% by early next year.

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