59% of buyers caught in chains reported they had been tempted to walk away from a purchase.

Residential and non-residential property transactions in the UK displayed mixed patterns in August 2025, according to the latest provisional data from HMRC.

The average time from sale agreed to exchange was 109 days in 2024, compared with 66 days in 2007.

HMRC reports 573,000 transactions in the first half of 2025, up 17.1% on 2024.

Summer has seen the highest number of mortgage approvals in the past two years.

95,080 residential property transactions completed in June 2025, according to figures out today from HMRC.

52% of homes go sale agreed within two months, yet completions remain slow.

Transactions were up by 42% in May following a steep decline in April.

Seasonally adjusted residential transactions rose by 25% from April to May 2025.

As UK transactions fell 28% in April thanks to higher rates of stamp duty introduced at the start of the month, Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank asks if there...