Simon, house prices, you spoke to some experts about their predictions. What are they telling you?

Well, the suggestion has been that prices might flatline. A recent poll conducted by Reuters, involving

28 housing market specialists, said that property prices would rise by 1.3% nationally.

We had nationwide come out and forecast a 1% rise. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyers believes house price growth is likely to come to a

halt in 2018 across the UK in general.

Home Track says regional cities will boom while London realigns.

Sarah Beeney has gone for prices will rise 2 to 3%.

Savils has also gone for house prices to rise next year, except for London.

It says that house prices will fall 2% in London next year, but all other areas will see a slight increase.

And Henry Pryor, who is always a man worth listening to on all things property, because his job is to buy properties for people,

which means that he does an awful lot more actual activity in the property market than most

people does, has given us one of his typical lines where he says, house price forecasts only

exist to make astrology look credible. But for what it's worth, I think that London house prices

will sink lower in 2018, falling on average by another 5%, while nationally prices will be pretty flat.

I expect UK house prices to end up 2% lower in 12 months' time.

The quicksand in 2018 will be towards the end of the year, I fear.

Who is going to want to commit to their biggest single purchase in the six months leading up to our departure from the EU in March 2019? Many buyers will wait until the dust

settles. And I think that's very true. I think it could go one of either two ways. I think the market

could suffer this year. You generally find with these things, things don't tend to just stay steady. They

either go up or they go down. But it might go down by a small amount. Well, you might actually find

that this stamp duty cut for first time buyers does actually give it a kind of a final leg up. And you

might get this pause for breath, certainly that's been going on in London for a while. This puts

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