London house prices are falling at their fastest pace since the financial crisis, confirming the British capital as the worst-performing part of a slowing market. Early data point to home values in London declining 2.7 percent in the year through September, the most since 2009, according to Acadata and LSL property Services. A 0.7 percent fall in August marked the first negative reading since 2011 as sellers in some of the city’s most expensive boroughs, including Westminster, Wandsworth and Hammersmith, were forced to cut prices. Outside of London and southeast England, the market appeared more buoyant, with prices on average rising in September by more than 3 per cent on the year, though the pace of growth has been slowing for months. In London, values fell for a sixth consecutive month. If the provisional estimates are confirmed, the average price of a home in the capital was less than £582,000...