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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Simon English

UK housing market in a slump as buyers absorb ‘extraordinary shocks’

There has been a final sting to “Awful April” after official figures showed a property market that was heading for strife immediately after the Iran war began.

Monthly property statistics from HMRC show there were 104,070 residential property deals struck in March, a fall of 41 per cent since last year.

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