UK home prices predicted to fall as property sector slowly reopens
Surveyors expect rents to fall across the UK in the coming three months, but stabilise in a year's time
London
AS THE UK property market slowly reopens after a long hiatus caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, chartered surveyors and estate agents predict that home prices will fall.
In the latest survey of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), three-quarters of respondents expected prices to fall in the coming weeks, with two-fifths saying the drop could be more than 4 per cent.
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