Sales

April saw UK house price growth slow for the first time since July 2020, according to the official index.

Over the last twelve months, the average price of a home sold in England and Wales has rocketed by £40,500, or 13.

Stacks says it is increasingly being brought in to handle negotiations once the right property has been identified, especially in complicated country house deals…

£56.2bn worth of real estate has been sold across the capital since the start of the pandemic, according to analysis of Land Registry records.

"Market conditions have remained brisk over the last month," says national buying agency Garrington in its latest market update video, "exacerbated further by the forthcoming phasing out of the Stamp Duty…

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2021 will be a case study for how differing rates of stamp duty impact the property market, writes Tom Bill - and another big spike in transaction numbers is on the cards for later this month…

Surveyors report the widest mismatch between property supply and demand since 2013, as agreed sales numbers continue to rise ahead of the end of the Stamp Duty holiday.

Chestertons has reported a 'rare scenario of supply meeting demand' in London, as new sales listings exceed buyer registrations. But it's still a sellers’ market, says the firm.

Some 704,000 homes are marked Sold Subject to Contract and are now going through the sales process, according to Rightmove; it's the biggest sales pipeline of the last decade, 78% higher than in May 2019.

Either "put your running shoes by the door" so you can jump on viewings instantly, says Clare Coode of Stacks Property Search in Cornwall, or "wait till the froth dies down".

Prime Central London has seen annual property price growth for the first time since before the EU Referendum, reports Knight Frank.