Yes, house prices are falling: but they probably won’t fall quickly

The news that the property market is going down has cheered many: but cheap credit and huge pent-up demand is likely to cushion the declineThere is a small but vibrant web forum, housepricecrash.co.uk, whose members’ outrage at inflated property prices is matched only by their dismay that the longed-for slump has never materialised. After Nationwide reported last week that house prices had fallen for the third month in a row, its faithful believe the day of reckoning is finally coming.The