Many different factors influence the housing market.
Understanding these factors is useful for both buyers and sellers.
So, are properties selling in 2025?
Let’s take a look.
Current UK property market overview
In 2025, the property market has not been extremely active.
Most experts have put this down to the hike in stamp duty rates. And also because of interest rates staying quite high.
Uncertainty around the global economy, has created some job instability.
This is partly in light of US tariffs. Uncertainty other knock-on effects, too.
According to Zoopla, the supply of properties is 12% higher than in 2024. Yet, buyer demand is only 1% higher than 2024.
This means that lots of properties are sitting on the market for a long time, unsold.
Average selling time for different property types
Different types of property have different average selling times.
At present, the fastest to slowest average selling time for each property is:
- Detached properties (57 days on average)
- Terraced houses (66 days)
- Semi-detached houses (70 days)
- Flats (82 days).
Property prices over the past year
Independent data shows that house prices have gone up in the UK over the past year.
All properties have gone up by 1.6% on average. But the amount of growth depends on the property type.
- Detached houses have increased in value by 1.2%
- Semi-detached properties have gone up by 2.6%
- Terraced houses have increased by 2%
- Flats have shown the smallest growth in price, averaging 0.1% across the entire UK.
Towns with fastest-selling properties
In 2025, the fastest property markets are Waltham Forest (London) and Manchester (north-west). Both of these locations find a buyer in roughly 19 days.
The third fastest property market is in Carlisle, England.
Stockport, Gateshead and Redditch all follow closely behind, each averaging 22 days.
Towns with slowest selling property
The area with the slowest property market is Denbighshire, in Wales, in 2025. Westminster in London is the next slowest location, followed by East Lindsey and Gwynedd.
Angus is the slowest moving property market in Scotland. And Kensington and Chelsea in London is taking a long time to find a buyer, too.
Most popular time of year to sell
Spring is generally the best time of year to sell a house. This is because people want to complete the deal before their summer holidays.
August tends to be one of the quieter months of the year. This is because lots of families are on holiday. Or the children are always in the house, making a move difficult.
Christmas is another quiet time of the year for similar reasons.
