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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn and Joanna Hodgson

Prolonged property slump looms as interest rates expected to top 6% until 2025

Homeowners were today warned the London property market is heading for a prolonged slump as investors priced in interest rates staying above 6% until 2025.

The gloomy projections came as Britain’s biggest lender Halifax said prices in the capital dipped 2.6% in the year to June, the fastest rate of decline since the financial crisis almost a decade and a half ago.

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