What happens to house prices after the stamp duty holiday?
Many thought it would be all over when the chancellors tax cuts tapered off at the end of this month, but a successful vaccination campaign and the prospect of lockdown restrictions being lifted are enticing more sellers to put their homes on the market in what is being seen as the start of a summer sales bonanza. JLL, the property consultancy, is predicting a bumper season with 420,000 property sales in June, July and August  worth 107 billion  making this summer the highest grossing quarter in UK residential market history. Sponsored  It looks like sellers are coming out of hiding. In the last seven days alone we have seen a surge in new instructions across the market, says Marc Schneiderman, a director of Arlington