There were 89,560 residential property transactions in the UK in March 2023, which is 1.3% higher than in February but 18.9% lower than a year earlier according to HMRC. It was also 7.1% lower than in January 2020, pre-pandemic.

HMRC’s provisional estimate of the number of UK residential property transactions in March 2023 was 7.4% lower than the average between 2005 and 2018, prior to the distortions in the housing market and economy since 2019. Year-to-date (January-March), transactions in 2023 were 17.3% lower than in 2022 and 6.8% lower than in 2019 although, as stated previously, the most recent HMRC estimate for property transactions are provisional may be revised whilst the full impact of the fall in mortgage approvals post-Mini Budget has not fed through to transactions as yet.

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