现在上述某些城市的房价涨势已经趋缓，过去一年来伦敦和纽约的价格涨幅大大回落，2004年第二季度实际涨幅只有约1 % 。
Now growth in home prices is weakening in some of these cities. The rate of price growth in London and New York slowed sharply over the past year, to only about a 1% real increase in the second quarter of 2004.