Local Range: Average house price inflation slips as localised markets diverge

Another rise in prime central London prices last month (0.4%) has contributed to a significant 8.1% year-on-year increase, according to Knight Frank today.

Residential property price inflation stumbled in July to its lowest ebb in three years, and surveyors' near-time expectations have taken a gloomy turn, says the Royal Institute of Charted Surveyors.

London's "emerging prime" areas are taking on more and more of traditional PCL's characteristics, says Douglas & Gordon in amongst some illuminating graphworks in the agency's latest quarterly report...