With households battling falling real wages, tighter credit conditions and modest rises in mortgage interest rates, there seems little prospect of a return to more normal levels of activity in the housing market. Indeed, the big risk facing the market is that an escalation of the euro-zone crisis acts as a catalyst for the weakness of house prices in the North and the Midlands to spread to Southern regions.
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