Will 2016 see a sharp correction in house prices?

We believe that UK house prices are fundamentally too high. But unless the economy lapses back into recession, triggering a spike in forced selling, a real terms correction, in which prices rise more slowly than incomes or rents for a run of years, is more likely than a fresh collapse in nominal house prices.

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