Freeze 'put housing market on ice'
The snowy start to the year caused the property market to grind to a "virtual halt", chartered surveyors have said.
Icy weather is being blamed for a blip in house buying which had picked up towards the end of 2009 and seen a gradual climb in prices.
The number of surveyors recording a rise in January dropped for the first time since September.
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