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UK house prices are at a record level, say Halifax, after their data shows rising property pricetags for a third month in a row. That’s in contrast to Nationwide data recently released, which showed a drop of 0.1 per cent for August. Now some experts are predicting that the average price of a property could surpass £300,000 by the end of the year.