Hemnet’s Buyer Barometer August 2024: Belief in rising prices among property buyers has fallen
In Hemnet’s Buyer Barometer, buyers’ price expectations fell for the second month in a row in August. Of the buyers surveyed, 43 percent stated that property prices will rise in the next six months. This is a decrease of 4 percentage points since July. At the same time, the proportion of buyers who believe property prices will fall rose. In August, 13 percent of buyers believed that property prices would fall, 2 percentage points more than in the corresponding survey in July. Overall, this means a net difference (the difference between those who believe in increasing and decreasing