(LONDON) British house prices moved higher in July, but the market remains flat so far this year, data from top home-loans provider Halifax showed yesterday.
'House prices increased by 0.6 per cent in July, reversing the fall in June,' said Martin Ellis at Halifax. 'Overall, there has been little change in prices during 2010 so far,' he added. 'The mixed pattern of monthly rises and falls over the first seven months of the year is consistent with a slowing market. It is also in line with our view that house prices will be broadly unchanged over 2010 as a whole.'
Halifax, part of state-controlled Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), also revealed that the average house price in Britain stood at £167,425 (S$358,850).
In a separate statement, LBG said it bounced back into profit in the first half. Pre-tax profit stood at £1.6 billion in the six months to the end of June, which compared with a loss of about £4 billion in the same period of 2009. -- AFP
Source: Business Times, 5 Aug 2010
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