Christ, what a dreadful thread. Things are never as good as they seem, but also they're never as bad as they seem. I'm getting bored to tears with some saying the world is doomed and will never recover from this. It's bollox. Tough times are here and they will be for some time but why tf would people stop buying houses forever for instance? A small drop in prices is no bad thing frankly. In every walk of life we've seen valuations getting way too far ahead of reality, this is a sharp but awful dose of reality.