House market boost helps retailers

Britain's housing market revival helped retailers enjoy their best sales growth for six months in August amid a surge in demand for homewares, according to new figures.

BDO's monthly high street tracker showed like-for-like sales across the retail sector, excluding online, increased by 3.5% last month, helped by an "exceptional" performance from homewares, which saw sales rise by more than a fifth - the strongest result for six years.
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