Question follow-through · 4951
Housing: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of levels of house (a) buyers and (b) sellers withdrawing from a sale at the last minute.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of levels of house (a) buyers and (b) sellers withdrawing from a sale at the last minute.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises that the current home buying and selling process in England is slow, costly and stressful, and that transactions falling through can contribute to this.On average, around one in three transactions fall through before completion, ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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