UK house price rises slow in year to September

LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices in September were 2.6% higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1% in August, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday.

Private-sector rents for homes in October were 5.0% higher than a year earlier, down from a 5.5% annual increase in September and the smallest such rise since August 2022.

(Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Suban Abdulla)

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