British house prices record large fall amid summer distractions

Asking prices for newly advertised British houses and apartments recorded an ​unusually large fall in the four ‌weeks to July 11, as the men’s soccer World Cup and record temperatures distracted buyers who ​also face high borrowing costs, property ​website Rightmove said this week..

Prices for property ⁠put on sale dropped by 1.0 per cent, ​compared with the previous month, bigger than ​the average 0.2 per cent fall for the period over the past 10 years....