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Public Rights of Way (PRoW) are a national institution enjoyed by millions of people. Many of them are hundreds, in some cases thousands of years old, often created by people walking across the land to work, hunt, market, or to visit the next village, church, or school and are since being safe-guarded by protective laws.

Housebuilding continued steadily as we ended 2018, with no change in new build dwelling and a 1% increase in completions year on year.

Conveyancers in England and Wales dealt with more cases on average in the last three months of 2018 than in any other quarter since before the EU referendum of June 2016, according to the Q4 2018 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.

Paralysis continues to grip the property market, with activity remaining flat. First-time buyers are accounting for a significant chunk of the limited market activity, while those few who need to move, despite wider uncertainty, are also helping to keeping the market moving, albeit at a glacial rate.

The UK commercial real estate sector was a rare bright spot in the last quarter of 2018, with new commercial work helping bring up otherwise poor construction figures.