Housing: ‘Trying to buy in this market is painful’

The 37-year-old pharmaceutical sales representative says prices in 2018 were a little out of her reach, so she decided to “save aggressively” throughout 2019 and was viewing two to three houses a week before the first lockdown.

Mark Goodall, a 58-year-old Covid infection study worker, was selling his parents’ house as his father had gone into a care home. He says he and his sister were “surprised” by the demand with offers on the first viewings.

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