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House prices in slim rise
House prices have gone up for the third month in a row, according to the Halifax mortgage lender.
Its latest monthly survey says they rose in July by just 0.3 per cent, leaving them 2.6 per cent lower than a year ago at £163,981.
The lender explained that over the last three months prices had been 0.5% higher than in the previous three.
That was the first such increase in 14 months, indicating that prices were stabilising, according to its housing economist Martin Ellis.