‘When you factor in cash and mortgaged transactions, the picture is less bleak’

The proportion of cash buyers ranges from less than 20% in Barking & Dagenham to nearly 60% in parts of Norfolk, new research shows.

The annual rate of inflation across England & Wales has slipped to 4.1%, reports Acadata, but ‘there will be no price collapse as some had previously suggested’

Cash buyers have accounted for 27% of sales recorded in the UK this year, according to new research, but the proportion in some areas has reached over half.