§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many purchases of(a) private dwellings and (b) business premises in excess of £250,000 were made in 1998. [70691]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 15 February 1999]It is provisionally estimated that there were about 40,000 residential transactions and about 20,000 commercial and land transactions in excess of £250,000 in 1998, out of a total of 1.5 million property transactions.