All the usual provisos... this is the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report and there's nothing scientific about asking a few estate agents to lick their fingers and stick them in the air... but here it is: Pessimism rules, new enquiries dropped for a fifth consecutive month, and price expectations worsened (the % number of agents expecting falls compared to rises) for a fifth consecutive month, too. More here.

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