Credit conditions in the US have stopped tightening and there are signs that they are now loosening. We expect this to continue, supporting home sales and putting a floor under house prices. But any improvement in credit conditions won’t be significant enough to generate actual house price gains and could be rapidly reversed if the fallout from a euro-zone break-up is worse than we anticipate.
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