Christopher Watkin’s analysis of Twenty EA data last Friday was well received by readers as it delivered some much needed good news about transactions volumes – which to agents is a rather more important than house prices.

Over the weekend Christopher has done some more number-crunching and he sent us this graph, which strikingly shows a consistently predictable annual ‘bounce’ in SSTC volumes between November and the following January.

The property world has not come to an end, despite what the papers say