Nigel Lewis asked leading names from national and regional estate agency, builders, home finders, auctioneers and the portals what they reckon 2021 will bring.

RICS says activity has been coming off the boil since early December and that lockdown will mute home moving further.

Activity is strongest in the upper end of the housing market where stamp duty savings are most significant.

Extension has gone down well but many agents worry if their post-Covid turnover can support normal staffing levels and whether staff have 'lost their mojo'.

Few in the property business would applaud his slogan taken from ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ written 200 years ago.

Latest research by UK Finance and NAEA Propertymark reveal improving activity as transactions and mortgage approvals increase.

Leading property firms including Chestertons and Winkworth says implementation of AML in the UK is too patchwork and poorly policed.

The Government chose April Fools’ Day to announce stricter regulations for letting and managing agents – but, says Jeremy Leaf, it’s being taken very seriously.