House sales suffer weakest start to the year since 2015

HM Revenue and Customs figures shows that house sales have got off to the weakest start to the year since 2015, with an estimated 96,650 house sales taking place in January 2023, 3% lower than in December 2022. According to HMRC, some 1,029,580 house sales have taken place in the financial year to date, between April 2022 and January this year. Analysis shows this is lower than the 1,154,360 house sales which took place over the same period a year earlier but higher than the 872,200 sales taking place between April 2020 and January 2021, in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Daily Telegraph (21/02/2023)   The Independent (21/02/2023)