Housing market activity ‘continues at strong pace’, but the longer-term outlook is ‘increasingly negative’ – RICS
Surveyors across the UK reported a continued rise in demand, supply, prices and agreed sales in September - but the consensus is that things will turn in the next 12 months...
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