The common variety of days to promote your house within the UK now stands at 205 – the primary time the 200-day mark has been damaged.
The longest time to promote is in interior London and the South-East at 222 days, intently adopted by outer London at 221 days. The North-East is the very best performing area in England and Wales at 177 days whereas Scotland data the shortest time at a median of 145 days.
The analysis was carried out by TwentyEA, the property market knowledge specialists, on behalf of Cavendish property brokers in Cheshire and North Wales.
The 205-day common breaks down as 80 days from instructing an agent to attaining Bought Topic to Contract (SSTC) and an extra 125 days from SSTC to completion. This is a rise of 10 days when evaluating January to Might 2025 with the identical timeframe in 2024.
David Adams, managing director of Cavendish, stated: “In just about each area of the UK, the time to promote your house has gone up with the UK common rising from 195 days in 2024 to 205 days in 2025.
“This knowledge demonstrates greater than ever the significance of being as ready as attainable earlier than you launch your property on to the market.
“Based mostly on a median time of 205 days, most individuals hoping to offer themselves a gift of a brand new residence by Christmas will most likely need to assume once more.
“Having stated that, there are many methods during which residence sellers can put themselves in pole place to beat the nationwide common, however they should put the laborious yards in properly earlier than itemizing. You want to deal with promoting your house like a army operation.
“Velocity to market doesn’t equal velocity to sale. Much better delaying for a few weeks to get the whole lot so as reasonably than speeding to get on-line inside hours of you instructing your property agent.
“Crucially, when selecting your property agent to promote your house, ensure to ask them what their promoting report is. What proportion of houses do they efficiently promote, what number of go for asking value or higher and the way lengthy on common to promote.”
