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The TwentyCi Property & Homemover Report – Q1 2021

Written by Matt Hawkins | Apr 21, 2021 1:48:43 PM

Welcome to the latest edition of the TwentyCi Property & Homemover Report, providing a comprehensive review of the UK property market, created from the most robust property change sources available.

Our report provides a real-time review of the UK market, covering 99.6% of all sale and rental property moves. This state of the nation report provides unique insight into the people behind the numbers, creating a picture of the demographic, regional and socio-economic factors impacting the housing market, including:

  • Factual data (not modelled or sentiment-based)
  • Full market coverage
  • Demographic overlay
  • Property sales data
  • Property rental data

Headlines 

  • The retail catapult – The number of households in the home moving journey is up by over 50% year on year (with an additional 500k households entering, progressing, or completing the process of moving home).
  • The property market surge – Year on year sales agreed are up by over 30% delivering a welcome boom to residential property buyers and sellers across the whole of the UK including signs of a resurgent London.
  • The threat of no stock – Aside from London, the whole of England and Wales at a regional level has between 2.2 and 2.4 months of residential property stock left to sell. Overall, the available months of stock are down by about half on historical norms.