LONDON, June 22 Reuters British house prices in April were 12.4 higher than a year earlier, the secondbiggest annual rise in figures going back to 2006, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.

The big price rise bucks signs of a slowdown in other measures of house prices, and is the largest annual increase in the ONS series since a recordhigh in June 2021, just ahead of the expiry of a tax break on property purchases.

London continued to see the smallest house price rises of any region, with prices up 7.9 compared with a year before.

Reporting by David Milliken; editing by William James

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