Properties are taking six days longer to sell than they were a year ago

Stirling Ackroyd New Homes will operate under the Dexters banner, marketing new developments from Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to Hackney to Peckham

There was an average of 252 would-be buyers registered per estate agency branch in February, according to the NAEA. That's 18% fewer than a year ago, and 46% fewer than in 2016.

Surveyors 'sense little prospect of a turnaround' in the short-term, says the RICS, 'as concerns over the potential impact of Brexit, alongside affordability constraints continue to cause buyers and sellers…