Property portal reports record traffic, but vendors continue to wait

But the majority of October's property exchanges in prime London still originated in deals done before the first national lockdown, says Knight Frank.

2021's property market  is likely to be "less of a roller-coaster ride" than 2020, suggests Knight Frank, as the firm stands by its forecast of 0% growth for UK house prices in the year ahead.

"The volume of activity in prime residential markets [outside London] for [2020] as a whole was the strongest since before the global financial crisis," says Savills.