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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

‘Busiest May for house sales agreed since 2021’ as hotspots revealed

May this year was the busiest month for house sales being agreed in over three years as mortgage rates remain lower than recent highs.

However, while nationally the number of sales agreed was up six per cent year-on-year - with Wales seeing a jump of 15 per cent - in London the number of transactions was just one per cent higher on the previous year.

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