UK Home Prices Down 6.3% in Year to June

Surprise surprise, UK home prices fell for a 6th month in a row in June. Prices fell -0.9% in June from May and are now showing a year over year decline of -6.3%.

Expect those year over year declines in home prices to exceed 10% before the year is out. For more on the state of the UK housing market take a look at this gloomy article from the UK Telegraph:

UK house prices in grip of slump that experts expect to deepen

Britain is in the grip of a housing slump as bad as at any stage since the 1970s, property experts warned, as data suggested that first time buyers had all but disappeared from the market.

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