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Philip Coggan: What goes up must come down

House prices are finally obeying the laws of gravity. The Halifax measure has fallen in four of the past five months, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors survey shows new buyers are starting to dry up, while even the Rightmove survey of asking prices suggests seller optimism is starting to evaporate.

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