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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Agreed house sales in UK at highest point this year, says Zoopla

Flowers in bloom in the garden of a pretty cottage in Dorset.
Zoopla found that house sellers are still having to retain ‘realistic’ asking prices in order to attract interest from potential buyers. Photograph: Loop Images Ltd/Alamy

More prospective house sellers are returning to the UK’s property market, pushing agreed home sales to their highest point of the year in May, according to Zoopla, although it warned that the rebound in activity could be knocked by rising mortgage rates.

House prices have fallen by 1.3% nationally over the past six months, the property website found, but the speed of price falls has been decreasing as buyer confidence slowly improves.

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