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House prices record largest fall since GFC

House prices have fallen by 3.8% over the past 12 months, the largest year-on-year drop since the global financial crisis in July 2009.

Compared with the previous month, house prices fell by 0.2% in July, according Nationwide. The average house price in the UK is now £260,828, down from £262,239 in June.

Prices peaked last August at £273,751, the month before Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s infamous “mini-Budget”.

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