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UK house prices see first fall since June, says Halifax
UK house prices recorded their first monthly fall since June with a 1.5% drop in February, the Halifax has said.
The drop was caused by the end of stamp duty relief, the cold weather and more properties being put up for sale. The average home is now worth £166,857.
The Halifax said that prices were still 4.5% higher than a year earlier, but the market had slowed in recent months.
The survey found that prices are also a full 8% higher than the lowest point of the market in April 2009.
Lending slows
The icy weather has been widely noted as a major factor in the latest round of data about the UK housing market.
Weather conditions slowed activity, with many potential homebuyers less tempted to look around homes or finding it difficult to travel.
The end of the temporary stamp duty relief was also regarded as a factor in the slowdown.
The stamp duty threshold dropped back to £125,000 on 1 January, after the threshold was at £175,000 for just over a year.
Both these issues were cited last week by the Nationwide building society , which said that prices had fallen by 1% in February.
Mortgage lending also suffered at the start of the year. Recent figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders also showed that gross lending for home loans fell by 32% in January compared with December, reaching a 10-year low of £9.1bn.
The Bank of England also reported a 17% fall in the number of mortgages approved for house purchase during January.
But the Halifax, which is now part of the Lloyds Banking Group, also pointed to a rise in the number of people putting their home on the market as a factor affecting prices.
"An increase in the number of properties available for sale has helped to reduce slightly the imbalance between supply and demand," said Martin Ellis, Halifax housing economist.