Prime country house price growth cools sharply as supply improves

Savills, Knight Frank and Hamptons have all reported a booming country house market.

“I’ve never known a time like it in 30-plus years," says Rupert Sweeting, head of national country sales at Knight Frank.

Surging house price inflation has pushed 4.3 million homes into a higher stamp duty bracket since the start of the pandemic, estimates Zoopla.