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What a year it has been for the property market. We have had the lowest-ever supply of properties with unprecedented demand for three-bedroom family homes. We have seen homes come onto the market and sell within days, sometimes even hours, for excess of the asking price - this is largely down to the Stamp Duty tax reduction, which created a buoyant property market but causing somewhat of a property shortage and within the Braintree district, Zoopla's latest data (2021) states that 3-bed semi-detached properties surged by 107% compared to 2019's pre-pandemic data.