London’s housing market is expected to experience a slight “pull-back” as house prices across the UK stagnate, according to Britain’s surveyors that the number of house sales will fall to around 1.15 million, a drop of 5% compared with 2018 and sharply below the 1.7 million that changed hands in 2006, the year before the financial crisis. Prices are also expected to flatline...

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Housebuilding declined sharply in London and the Midlands last year as political and economic uncertainty around the shape of Brexit hit the housing market, according to industry figures. The number of new homes in London registered by housebuilders with the National House Building Council (NHBC) in 2018 fell 10% from the previous year to 16,069, the biggest annual drop since 2016. In the east Midlands...

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