UK Housing Paralysis Meets High Street Exodus: A Tale of Two Markets

Most flats listed for sale in England fail to find a buyer within six months, even with prices slashed. One Devon owner cut her £300,000 freehold flat to £280,000 and saw just four viewings in nine months. A London leaseholder has endured three failed sales in two and a half years, watching her £200,000 property跌 to £145,000. The leasehold controversy keeps buyers away from the remaining stock, creating what one owner bluntly calls a...