Calls for clarity over the house buying and selling process in Scotland have been made by a leading professional body.
Answers over when business can restart along with property inspections and valuations have been called for by the The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
They are asking the Scottish Government to provide more detail.
As a result of coronavirus lockdown measures, the RICS say the markets have been impacted.
The figures, which come from the RICS UK Residential Market Survey for April 2020, suggest 80% of contributors have seen buyers and sellers pulling out of transactions on the housing market.
Hew Edgar, head of UK Government relations at RICS, said: "RICS last month called on the UK Government to explore confidence-boosting measures for the residential market when it is safe to resume.
"Given that 62% of UK members believed that a stamp duty holiday would boost sales and keep prices unchanged, we urge the Scottish Government to make the same assessment of the LBTT (Land and Buildings Transaction Tax) regime.
"The Scottish Government now has the opportunity to pave the way for a resilient post-Covid recovery, and should look at other palatable options that would kick start market fluidity such as reducing or removing LBTT for downsizers, or support scaling up retrofitting of existing homes as both an economic stimulus and a spur to a healthier and greener housing stock for Scotland.
"That said, what the housing market needs first and foremost is clarity, and an unambiguous signal from the Scottish Government of when the house buying and selling process, including inspections and valuations within clear parameters of public health, can restart."
It’s also anticipated that house prices will be lower when the market reopens, with recovery estimated to take around 11 months.
More than a third of respondents, 35%, to the survey believe when the market reopens across the UK, prices could be up to 4% lower, however more than 40% think prices could in fact fall by more than 4%.
The Scottish Government has been contacted for comment.
