37% of UK properties for sale currently have been reduced in price at least once since first coming onto the market, property website zoopla.co.uk has claimed.

It says the average discount off the original asking price being offered by sellers across the UK on these homes now stands at £19,580 (7.5%).

The average discount on price-reduced properties on offer today is over £1,000 more than this time last year when it stood at £18,475 (7%).

The total amount reduced from the asking prices of all properties currently for sale across the country stands at £2.5 billion.

Glasgow tops the list of places where the biggest discounts are currently on offer with an average price reduction of 9.2% (£12,566). Sellers in Blackpool are also making big concessions, knocking 9% off their original asking prices on average, whilst Maidstone rounds out the top three areas with the highest average reductions in price at 8.5% (£19,668).

Stockport has the highest proportion of discounted properties for sale with nearly half (49%) of sellers having cut their asking prices at least once. Other areas where a big proportion of sellers have felt the need to drop prices include Chesterfield (45%) and Rotherham (44%).

Nicholas Leeming of Zoopla.co.uk said: “The current average discount of £19