June 1 (Reuters) - The Bank of England is carefully monitoring Britain’s booming housing market as it weighs up the possibility that a rapid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a sustained period of inflation, Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said. "There is a risk that demand gets ahead of supply and that will lead to a more generalised pick-up in inflationary pressure. That"s something we are absolutely going to guard against. We are looking carefully at the housing market and a raft of real-term indicators", Ramsden said in an interview published on Tuesday in the Guardian newspaper bit.ly/3i6xix3. Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.