According to the more bullish estate agents, it will all be over by Christmas. Perhaps. In a brand new Abbey survey 61% of agents believed the property price slowdown would end within a year; only 7% thought it would last more than three years. But if there’s one thing certain about an estate agent’s smile during a downturn it’s that, like Smokey Robinson’s, it’s only there trying to fool the public… It takes a brave property investor to buy British at a time like this. Elsewhere? It’s a mixed and very confusing picture...

Our editor tackles overseas property in his Citywire guest column.

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