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Housing Watch (Oct.)

The renewed increases in mortgage rates and new listings mean we now expect house prices to fall by 5% over the next six months. The big risk, however, is that we are underestimating the degree to which forced sales are picking up. If so, the fall in house prices could be much larger.

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