With low interest rates and Quantitative Easing (QE) house prices could remain static for five years, in nominal terms and fall by 5% in real terms.
Unless the banks start lending and people start buying again.
Since the crisis £60bn worth of mortgages have become interest-only.
Surprisingly, there are now more interest-only mortgages than there were in 2007.
Interest rates are artificially low. With inflation at 5.2% interest rates should be 2% above that at 8%.
Mortgage rates would then be 9%. Those who have buy-to-let properties would struggle to cover their costs at these rates.
