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Sales of £5 million-plus properties defy prime London slump
Sales of properties in London’s prime neighbourhoods slumped last month as the UK government's budget put a pause on transactions, figures show. There were 17.5 per cent fewer sales transactions in October than a year earlier, and 6.6 per cent fewer than the October average for the pre-pandemic years of 2017-19, according to figures by property data firm Lon