• WIN OVER THE MARKET: FIVE REASONS WHY YOU’RE BETTER OFF SELLING YOUR HOME WHEN PRICES COOL

    How do you feel about the property market right now? It’s peak prediction season in the press, with daily claims from experts that house prices are about to fall off a cliff, stagnate or even slowly rise. We know that most of these predictions will be wrong, but which ones? The first thing to remember is that asking prices and sale prices are not the same thing. If a home is 10% overpriced and then reduced by 10%, that isn’t a fall in sale prices. And if asking prices increase, like Rightmove says they have this month, it doesn’t mean sale prices have risen as well. So what is actually…