"JK" wrote in message ...
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However, it looks like it's turning into a buyer's marker, so perhaps you
should be focusing on your purchaser and worrying less about finding
somewhere - if prices take a tumble then you will see a lot more on the
market all of a sudden.

All that is happening now is that prices are not increasing as dramatically
as they have been over the past few years, but are levelling out. There is
no reason to expect that prices will start to fall at all, much less that
they will tumble. When prices did drop suddenly last time, houses tended to
be less available at first, because people did not want to sell at a loss.
It was only as people had to sell and prices stayed low, that the number of
properties on the market rose, mainly because buyers with negative equity
could not afford to buy.

Colin Bignell