House prices dropped by just more than one per cent in the Vale of White Horse in November, new figures show.

However, the drop does not reverse the longer-term trend, which has seen property prices in the area achieve 7.6 per cent annual growth.

The average the Vale of White Horse house price in November was £397,552, Land Registry figures show – a 1.4 per cent decrease on October.

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Over the month, the picture was worse than that across the South East, where prices increased 0.5 per cent, and the Vale of White Horse underperformed compared to the 1.2 per cent rise for the UK as a whole.

Over the last year, the average sale price of property in the Vale of White Horse rose by £28,000 – putting the area 50th among the South East’s 64 local authorities with price data for annual growth.

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