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LONDON (Reuters) - British house price growth slowed on an annual basis for a fifth month in a row in January, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Thursday.
House prices rose 6.8 percent from January last year, slightly stronger than the 6.6 percent growth expected by economists in a Reuters poll but down from an increase of 7.2 percent in December, Nationwide said.
On the month, house prices rose 0.3 percent in January, in line with expectations and up from 0.2 percent in December.
