House prices dip £1,000 in September
House prices fell back from a record high in September with the first month-on-month decrease in more than a year, building society Nationwide has reported.
A fall of 0.2% took the average UK property price to £188,374, edging down from the all-time peak of £189,306 recorded in August.
The monthly price decrease follows 16 months in a row of increases and ends the run of property prices across the country hitting fresh highs over the summer.
Typical UK house prices surpassed their 2007 peak in cash terms in May this year and up until this month they had been reaching new records ever since.
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Prices still up on last year
Year-on-year house price growth slowed to 9.4% in September, from 11% in August. Year-on-year price growth had previously been hitting double digits since April, according to the building society's study.
Despite the slowing pace of house price growth, every region across the UK recorded year-on-year house price gains, from 21% in London to 4.3% in the north of England.
At £401,072 on average, London house prices reached a new record high in September and now stand at 31% above their 2007 pre-financial crisis peak in the capital.
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