Glasgow’s slowest and fastest house sale markets revealed

Professional house buying firm Property Solvers has revealed that it’s taking an average of 17.35 weeks to sell a property in the Glasgow (G) postcodes.

Glasgow’s slowest and fastest house sale markets revealed

Updated monthly, the local house market insights tool last analysed over 423 property sales across the region between June 2018 and June 2019.

The data tracks the moment a property is listed on the UK’s largest property portal Rightmove to the point it’s marked as officially ‘sold’ at the HM Land Registry.



Although a handful of properties in the G3, G60 and G63 postcodes took between 28 and 33 weeks to sell on average, the majority of homeowners were waiting between 14 and 18 weeks to sell across Glasgow.

Properties were selling the fastest in the G1, G31, G34 and G52 postcodes. 17 tracked homes in these areas took 10 weeks to sell on average.

Property Solvers co-founder, Ruban Selvanayagam said: “Although there are some natural delays to be expected, it’s surprising that it takes so long for house sales to go through – especially in the digital age we live in.”

“Whilst it’s true that the estate agency, conveyancing and mortgage industries continue to embrace the benefits of tech, much work needs to be done to overcome the friction across house sale chains.”

He continued: “As a fast house sale company, we buy for cash and take on several risks which means our transactions are completed in as little as 7 days.  However, we’re a business and we wouldn’t suggest that most buyers follow the same path as us.”

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