Transactions to suffer as vendors dig in their heels

On balance, April’s rise in asking prices does not appear to be good news for the housing market. For a start, to our minds it further reduces the chances that activity will recover any time soon. It also arguably lends some support to the idea that prices have yet to fall to a true market-clearing level.

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