Yesterday was a truly terrible, by any person's standards. And now we have to decide whether to continue with our usual fare of house price speculation, scurrilous London property gossip and big-annexed property porn, or - like the rest of the media - pick over the memories of a sadistic and very stupid crime. Let's go with the usual fare. Later, we'll catch up on one of yesterday's most trivial celebrity-related London property stories. But in the meantime, you'd be forgiven for not having noticed that the Bank of England met yesterday, and despite much speculation and pressure from the high street, decided to leave rates unchanged. Again. Also, there was a Halifax house price report for June. The result? House prices rose 0.1% in June, knocking the annual inflation rate right down to 3.7%, the lowest since March 2001. Click this for Halifax's pdf of disappointment. So... will what happened yesterday have any impact whatsoever on London house prices? Let us know your thoughts.