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Northern Ireland continues to record the strongest annual growth at 7.6%.

Annual growth increased to 3%, with a monthly rise of 0.4%.

The average time to sell a home is 33 days, just one day longer than last year - though London sees the greatest impact with time to sell being six days longer.

Yorkshire and the Humber was the English region with the highest house price inflation.

The number of agreed sales is only 3% lower than this time last year.

Aggregate house prices soften with near-term expectations pointing to modest declines in the months ahead.

March is the first full month in which the conflict in Iran fed through into UK mortgage pricing.

Bridging loans are enabling developers to delay the sale of a property until there is an upsurge in prices.

The market had regained momentum after the slowdown recorded around the turn of the year, however, the conflict in West Asia is now clouding the outlook.

Average mortgage rates increase by 0.4 percentage points in recent weeks.