The latest house price expectations surveys remain negative, but are not signalling an adjustment on anything like the scale seen in 2008-09. Nevertheless, their record in anticipating house price movements is mixed. The fact that wider measures of consumer confidence are at recession-period lows and still declining suggests that house prices could yet fall much further this year.
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