HMRC figures show rise in home sales last month

New provisional figures from HM Revenue & Customs show that the number of homes sold in the UK in January, at 121,640 was 24.1% higher than a year earlier and 2.4% lower than December 2020. However, transactions have been at their lowest in the financial year 2020/21 so far since the same period in 2012/13, when the total was 767,420. Former RICS residential chairman Jeremy Leaf said the fall between December and January indicated a “market paused for breath in reaction to further restrictions and another lockdown.”

Evening Standard (23/02/2021)    The Daily Telegraph (23/02/2021)