House sellers shaved more than £2,600 off their asking prices in July on average - but there are also signs of the market returning to business as usual following the vote to leave the EU, according to a property website.

Across England and Wales, the price of property coming to market fell by 0.9%, or £2,647, in July, Rightmove said.

The fall took the average price tag on a home to £307,824 - a figure which is still up by 4.5% annually - although a holiday slowdown is not unusual for this time of year.

Rightmove said that in the two weeks following the referendum vote, inquiries from buyers to estate agents were down by 16% compared with the same period in 2015.

But it said that last year's figures were boosted by the surprise general election result. It said buyer inquiry levels are consistent with the same period in 2014, which is a more comparable benchmark.

Rightmove said that in an encouraging sign of a return to business as usual, the vote to leave the EU does not seem to have put sellers off coming to market.

Compared with the same period in 2015, the two weeks before the referendum vote saw the number of homes coming on the market down by 8% - although in the two weeks afterwards levels have been up by 6%.

Rightmove's report appears to paint a more upbeat picture than a report released last week by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), which pointed to sharp falls in both house sellers and buyers.

Rics' report, based on data collected after the EU referendum result, found that a net balance of 45% more surveyors saw a fall rather than an increase in new homes coming on the market during June. This is the sharpest fall Rics has ever recorded, since it started asking this question in 1998.

Rics also found that interest from potential buyers was fading at the fastest rate since 2008.

Rightmove's report found that on average, homes took 58 days to sell in June, slightly up from 57 days in May.

Looking across England and Wales, asking prices fell across all regions month on month in July.

Rightmove's report showed Wales and Yorkshire and the Humber saw the sharpest month-on-month decreases in asking prices, with falls of 2.3% and 2.1% respectively. The average asking price in Wales is £180,861, while in Yorkshire and the Humber it is £174,614.

The East Midlands and the South West of England saw the smallest month-on-month price falls, at 0.2% and 0.4% respectively.

The average asking price in the East Midlands is £197,705 and in the South West of England it is £300,904.

In London, asking prices fell by 1.2% month on month, taking the average price of a property there to £635,710.

Rightmove said the mis-match between the demand for homes and a lack of supply remains a long-term problem in many parts of the country. A lack of supply helps to keep house prices up.

Miles Shipside, director of Rightmove, said: "The summary so far based on two weeks of post-Brexit statistics is that the housing market remains steady, underpinned by the same fundamentals that have led to its recovery since the last downturn."

He said estate agents in areas where stock shortages were driving momentum before the referendum say activity has recovered quickly, with buyers' fear of losing a scarce property a key factor.

He said: "They say that very few deals have fallen through as a direct result of post-Brexit jitters."

Mr Shipside continued: "With the onset of the summer holiday season, new sellers typically price more conservatively and the average drop in the month of July is 0.4% over the last six years.

"Perhaps unsurprisingly this July's fall is marginally larger, as political turbulence has a track record of unsettling sentiment."