The thing that made me strident here was the initial post which infered that prices were rising and that those pundits who have been prematurely negative about the market have been very quiet because of one months apparent averaged increase (a group to which I do not belong, though to whom I would like to join in due course if and when the evidence becomes more convincing). High property prices do not help my potential IHT position, nor the position of my adolescent daughter who is not yet on the housing ladder, but for whom I dare not yet assist financially. Do I take it that you take a keen professional interest in property values?