A move often starts long before a property is officially listed. I

Stevenage completed noticeably fewer sales this year, but the homes that did sell went for more, not less, a different story to a slowing market.

Knebworth and Codicote are not one market. Moving between them means moving between two genuinely different price tiers, and both saw noticeably fewer completions this year.

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