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Savills: house market down until 2012
1 May 2009Estate agency Savills today predicted the housing market may not recover until 2012 - a year later than previous forecasts.
However, the property specialists said London and the South-East would bounce back first because of the greater concentration of wealth in and around the capital.
Savills predicted prices would drop about 11% this year compared with last year's 14.7% decline. "Fear of redundancy and credit constraints will hold back the recovery," said Savills head of residential research Yolande Barnes.
She added that prices have fallen about 19% since the market peaked in the third quarter of 2007.
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A little more realism is appreciated, but this may still be to optimistic. Only a 19% fall since 2007, where 30%+ is needed.
- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, 01/05/2009 15:10
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