Selling a home in London: should you try to put your property on the market in 2024 or hold off?

With inflation tumbling, interest rates held for successive months and almost every London borough seeing house prices fall last year, will 2024 be the year buyers flood back into the London housing market?

Or will the stagnant economy, ongoing global unrest and the looming presence of a general election at home keep their foot on the throat of a housing market already subdued by Brexit, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis?

If you want to move but don't have an intense motivation or urgent deadline, it can be hard to know what the best strategy is this year. So we've asked seven experts for their advice on when and how to sell a home in 2024.

Get busy under Rishi

Peter Wetherell, executive chairman of Mayfair estate agent Wetherell, predicts a peak in house-market activity at the start of this year.

"The general election has the potential to play a significant