Estate agency Connells says the buoyant start to 2016 created by investors trying to beat the April stamp duty deadline may continue into the early summer - it says typical prices are likely to rise another two per cent in the second quarter of this year.
Like many agencies, Connells - which yesterday issued a market report - saw a strong start to 2015 on the sales side: instructions were up 1.0 per cent on last year and the number of buyers entering the market up 31 per cent on Q1 2015, while the number of sales agreed compared to last year grew by 7.0 per cent.
The average house price rose 1.0 per cent in the first three months of the year and the firm predicts another 2.0 per cent by the end of June.
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That must be weird, having half a person come in to take up a tenancy....
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