LONDON (Reuters) – Expectations for activity in Britain’s housing market have dried up quickly thanks to a worsening economic outlook and rising interest rates, an industry survey showed on Thursday. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said its gauge of sales expectations for the coming 12 months slid to -36% in July from June’s -21%, the lowest reading since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The survey was conducted before the Bank of England last week announced its biggest rate hike since 1995. Britain’s housing market, like that in many other rich nations, bo…