Some of the property market turbulence of the last year is revealed in figures released by website Zoopla.co.uk.
While property sales in Britain in 2009 were 6.8% lower than a year earlier, it was very much a year of two halves. The number of properties that changed hands in the first six months of last year (273,015) was down 36.9% on 2008 but the second half of 2009 showed a 34.6% surge in sales transactions (421,732) compared to the last half of 2008.
Source: propertytalk Live!.