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Wakefield's July data reads like a contradiction until you look closely. The district listed more homes than in any July of the last six years, reduced the price on more homes than in any July of the last six years, and still managed to agree fewer sales than last year. Yet the prices those sales achieved climbed by more than nine per cent.

While most of Yorkshire drowned in stock this July, Huddersfield went the other way. There were 861 homes for sale at the end of the month, down 8.3% on last year — genuinely unusual when national supply is sitting near a 12-year high.

1,667 homes for sale, 262 sales agreed, and the widest asking-to-agreed gap in six years... here's what it means for you.