Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Spring home buyers are facing the highest ever prices demanded by sellers - with the average price tag on a home having jumped by nearly £7,000 in the space of a month.
Across Britain, the increase of £6,733 or 2.1 per cent month-on-month pushed average seller asking prices to a new record high of £327,797 in April, Rightmove said.
This was more than £4,000 higher than a previous record set last October. In the North West, Rightmove says the average house price is currently £218k - with a monthly change of 2.2 per cent, up by 9pc per year.
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