It was on the second last day in February that Housing Today first referred to the coronavirus pandemic, with the concerns about the disease, which at that stage had not gripped the UK, being one of the factors blamed for a slowdown in house price growth.

But, as we all later discovered, a pandemic does not do border control and what was something to be concerned about over there soon became something to be very worried about over here.

As results season got into its stride at the start of March,

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