House price growth increases, Nationwide says

Annual house price growth rose 1.9% in January to £215,897, according to Nationwide, up from 1.4% growth in December and the fastest annual growth rate in over a year. Separately, buyers of luxury London homes got less-generous discounts in the final part of 2019, according the Coutts London Prime Property Index, which said buyers in the £1m to £10m bracket got an average discount of 10.2% off asking prices in the three months to December 31, compared to a 12.7% discount in the same quarter a year earlier.

Financial Times (29/01/20)   Evening Standard (29/01/20