Eight counties are enjoying a mini-boom, with year-on-year rises of over twice the pace of the national average, and they are all in the middle band of the country. Top three hottest markets: Northamptonshire (+9.1%), Derbyshire (+7.9%) and Norfolk (+7.4%).
Rightmove report shows house prices down by 0.9%
Holiday season casts its usual shadow with price of property coming to market falling by 0.9% (-£2,758) this month. Climate of stretched affordability and clouded political outlook continue to chill the annual rate of increase to a national average of just +3.1%. Of the English counties exceeding the 3.1% average annual rise, over half are in the buoyant mid-regions of the country in contrast to only a quarter in the north and just a fifth in the south.
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