What will happen to the property market over the next year? That’s the question on the lips of homeowners and would-be buyers.Will prices go up, down or remain static? We asked some of the region’s estate agents for their views:Simon Blyth of the Simon Blyth estate agency doesn’t believe there will be a huge dip in property values and notes that at the moment it is business as usual in the post summer holiday period, which is typically a busy time for estate agents before the winter lull..He says: “I have valued and sold houses through various recessions and destabilising events, including the miners’ strike, but I think this time will be different.“I believe the boost to values over the last couple of years, to what had been a stagnant market, was primarily because Brexit was resolved with the pandemic also playing a part.
