People never seem to learn. We heard the same thing last year, and the year before. Now there's a survey by the Alliance & Leicester showing that of the 21% of homebuyers who have put off buying a home in recent years because of talk of a price crash, almost three-quarters have lost out financially as a result. The average waiting time, before giving in and realising it's just not going to happen, was ten months... enough time for the average home to rise by £34,000. More, here.