Record numbers of future vendors sent a request for an estate agent to come and provide a market appraisal of their home in January, new figures suggest.
Data from Rightmove shows the number of people sending a valuation request to an estate agent was 23% higher in January 2024 than the previous record of January 2023.
January’s figure was also 27% higher than the third highest month on record for valuation requests in July 2020, when the housing market had reopened during the pandemic, the portal said.