This year is on course to be the strongest for home-buying activity since 2006, according to the main trade body for UK banks.
UK Finance said that while the first few months of the pandemic, during which the property market shut down completely for a time, led to predictions that sales would slump, the reality was very different, with “Covid-era activity set to eclipse everything since the credit crunch”.
The figures come hard on the heels of forecasts from the property website Zoopla and other commentators that 2021 would be the UK’s busiest year for the housing market since 2007.
While official figures have shown that the number of house sales tumbled in the weeks immediately after the end of the stamp duty holiday in England and Northern
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