Ongoing sales boom is strongest in key prime home hotspots including cheaper parts of London but also second-home favourites in Norfolk, Wiltshire and Cornwall.v

Estate agency and new homes are among the few areas of the economy untroubled by the Covid lockdown and social distancing, says Bank of England.

Rightmove claims the current feverish property market means first offers are likely to be the best, assuming they are correctly priced.

Well known for its prescient economic reports, the CEBR says prices will begin to drop once the stamp duty holiday and furlough schemes come to an end.

Agents and conveyancers are worried that system is beginning to creak as record numbers of sales put sales progression under huge pressure.

Portal says Nottingham is the most southerly buy-to-let hotspot at the moment with all the others in its Top Ten all in the north or Scotland.

House prices are already rising in virtually every area of the UK as the unprecedented sales surge continues to see demand outstrip supply.

Company says furlough wind-down will not dent market confidence and that Sunak's stamp duty holiday will keep sales going until March.