UK house price growth slowed for the first time in six months in January ahead of the end of the stamp duty holiday in March, data from the Nationwide Building Society showed on Tuesday.
House prices climbed 6.4 percent on a yearly basis, but weaker than the 7.3 percent increase logged in December. Economists had forecast an annual growth of 6.9 percent.
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