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And BOE's Carney aims and hits the mortgage lending in the U.K. and nudge banks towards lending more to small businesses.

Carney's explanation to reporters in London today was that ''This will help keep the housing ,market on a sustainable path and ensure the broader economy continues to receive the stimulus it needs, for as long as it needs, to sustain the recovery,''.

The pound rose and construction stocks fell as Carney unveiled changes to the central bank’s Funding for Lending Scheme that will mean it only applies to business lending from 2014 and will no longer be available for home loans.

Little evidence of immediate threat from housing

The revamp, announced in the BOE’s Financial Stability Report, comes after property researcher Acadametrics Ltd. said that house prices rose to a record last month, and Nationwide Building Society saw prices climbing from a year earlier at the fastest pace since 2010. The increase in demand has been partly fueled by a government incentive program known as Help to Buy, which aids buyers with small deposits.

In its analysis of the property market, the BOE said that house-price inflation has gathered momentum and activity has picked up, albeit from a low level. While it said there is “little evidence of an immediate threat to stability,” it warned that risks may build if there is a rapid increase in house prices and consumer indebtedness.

The British Pound has rallied sharply in the wake of this news, as it means that the BOE may be underestimating the pace of economic recovery, which could warrant tighter policy sooner than anticipated. Currently, the labor market is on pace to hit 7% unemployment by the fourth quarter of 2014, well-ahead of the three quarter 2015 estimate provided by the BOE in its Quarterly Inflation Report earlier this month.

Furthermore, the pound strengthened 0.4 percent to $1.6348 at 11:42 a.m. London time, while the FTSE 350 Household Goods & Home Construction Index fell 1.6 percent.