5% Up UK house prices grew in April at the fastest annual rate in more than two years latest statistics announced by Halifax which were released. Halifax have said in their latest publication that prices rose by 5% in the three months to April 2019, when compared against the same period a year earlier. This is now the fastest annual growth rate since Feb 2017. What has led to the rise? Halifax cautioned that the sharp rise in the annual rate partly reflected the fact that gro