Alison Platt, chief executive of estate agency network Countrywide, said past trends have shown a clear correlation between general elections and levels of sales in the property market.
She said: “Analysis of sales transactions over the course of the last nine general elections indicates there will be a dip in activity pre-election, but post-election there will be a bounce-back in the number of sales in the market.
“The highest levels are typically in the three months immediately following the election of a new government, where you’re looking at around 13 per cent higher than the average expected levels.
“The short timescale between now and the election also means that any consumer hesitancy pre-election will have less of an impact on transactions overall.”
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