Is the UK about to see a house price crash?

Higher property purchase costs could weigh on the property market and hit house price growth

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House price growth has slowed in recent months as the property market adapts to lower stamp duty thresholds, raising fears of a crash.

It was a "busy start to the year" for the housing market, said MoneyWeek, as demand rose among buyers who were racing to beat the March deadline when stamp duty thresholds were cut.

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Marc Shoffman is an NCTJ-qualified award-winning freelance journalist, specialising in business, property and personal finance. He has a BA in multimedia journalism from Bournemouth University and a master’s in financial journalism from City University, London. His career began at FT Business trade publication Financial Adviser, during the 2008 banking crash. In 2013, he moved to MailOnline’s personal finance section This is Money, where he covered topics ranging from mortgages and pensions to investments and even a bit of Bitcoin. Since going freelance in 2016, his work has appeared in MoneyWeek, The Times, The Mail on Sunday and on the i news site.