London House Prices Plunge as Supply Rise Adds to Lull

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London home sellers cut prices by a record for the month of July as an increase in supply added to pressure on the property market during the traditional summer lull, Rightmove Plc said.

Asking prices dropped 3.6 percent from June to an average 460,304 pounds ($715,600), the operator of Britain’s biggest property website said in an e-mailed report today. Across England and Wales, values fell 1.7 percent to 242,097 pounds.