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In previoius posts, it was said that prices were the lowest they have been for the past 30 years. The UK housing downfall has started prices are down 4.4% since last year and there are no signs of it slowing down. In the US despite attempts to slow down the drop, house prices continue to drop continually. The reason why the recession as some believe it to be is happening is quite well known. But the complications with house pricing are less obvious. Buyers and sellers should be careful of what’s ahead. However housing markets are not your average markets, they are not as volatile as other markets like oil. Houses just do not prove to be great assets anymore, people have to live in them and can not just sell when they feel that they can get a good price for it and neither can they just go and buy a property when it is cheap. Not to mention the all the other processes involved solicitors, tax and estate agents. The good points of a slow housing market is their prices adjust slowly and once they start to move they tend to keep moving in that direction for some time. This decline will not end anytime soon.

With that said, during a decline, prices are not the best way to determine the exact situation. With people being reluctant to move, anyone who does not have to sell stays where they are and people with the choice to buy wait to see if prices will fall further. The few transactions that do go ahead are like lagging indicators of the prices that would clear the market. A much better guide to the market is the transaction volumes concerned, the 30% drop said earlier in previous posts shows that the market is in a situation. Prices may seem stable but during a decline unless volumes have reached previous levels, beware of quicksand.
During declines bring confusing times, is how different areas and places can be so different. Prices in one location can be low while the other can have the sky as the limit. There can be many reasons for this but do not be fooled, nowhere is invulnerable to shifting house prices.