It currently takes 216 days on average to find a buyer and complete the sale of a property across Great Britain. Sellers with flats who have found a buyer are facing the longest wait to complete – an average of 169 days. Delays in the house-selling process were caused by a number of factors including longer chains, legal hold-ups and complications involved with selling leasehold properties. The regions where properties are selling the fastest and slowestThe analysis reveals homes are generally much quicker to sell in the north of England and Scotland than the south of England and Wales. The time taken to complete a sale is longest in Slough (229 days), Brentwood (209 days) and Colchester (205 days).