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The government has announced plans to make the house buying system cheaper and faster in what it has called the “biggest shake-up to the homebuying system in this country’s history”.

Proposals unveiled by Labour this morning promise to speed up the process of buying a house by around four weeks, which currently takes more than five months on average.

Under the plans, sellers and estate agents will be required to provide

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