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Buyer demand 'remains resilient', says property portal - but transaction numbers have fallen as higher interest rates bite.

'Most vendors are prepared to wait and see what happens in the hope that they’ll achieve a better price and a lower mortgage rate in the future,' says top-end estate agency.

Latest indices 'underscore the remarkable resilience' of the capital's top-end property market.

...but the average price is still £4,500 up on this time last year, reports Acadata.

'An important message coming back from RICS agents is around ensuring prices are set with an eye on the market conditions of today, rather than the recent past,' says the Institute's Chief Economist;

'Buyers are still out there and they are keeping the market moving and underpinning values – at least for now'

Throughout the many ups and downs of recent decades, the inter-agent market has prevailed - and those who have embraced it have tended to do rather well, says the LonRes MD.

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'The implications of stubborn inflation on the UK mortgage market are hampering activity in Prime Central London,' says JLL.

Zoopla flags 'a postcode lottery' across the UK, with a roughly even split between the number of homes seeing values rise and fall.

Nearly three-quarters of recent residential property deals in Prime Central London involved cash buyers, according to analysis by Savills.