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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Michael Hunter

House market showing signs of life says property portal Rightmove

Rightmove, the UK’s biggest property portal, pointed to signs of life in the housing market today, with sales rising and conditions in the rental sector staying “very busy”. 

Its website is often the first place many buyers enter the housing market. It said today that sales agreed between January and April were up 17%.  That came “with both sellers and buyers now increasingly looking to transact”, it added. 

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