House prices21 May 2018 12:00
Elsewhere, the latest house price update from Rightmove showed that asking prices for newly marketed properties climbed 0.8% on the month in May to a new record high of £308,075, up from £305,732.
However, asking prices in London subsided 0.2% on last year and across the South East as a whole dropped 0.1% - the first fall since 2011.