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House prices fell for the sixth consecutive month in April

The price of a typical house is now 1% lower than this time last year

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North Down’s average of £243,191 was down by 12.9% on the last quarter 07, but up 20.2% over the year.

The latest University of Ulster Quarterly House Price Index, produced in partnership with Bank of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, confirms the slowdown in annual growth rates and an actual quarterly fall in prices between the third and fourth quarters of 2007.

According to the report’s authors - Professor Alastair Adair, Professor Stanley McGreal and Mrs Louise Brown of the University of Ulster – the fourth quarter survey showed a housing market in transition.

Mrs Brown said: “Although price levels are still significantly higher than at this stage last year, the final quarter of 2007 saw prices levels come down and the volume of transactions fall, particularly in the second-hand market.”

The University’s survey is the broadest-based and most authoritative of all those undertaken in Northern Ireland and covers some 117 estate agencies.

The Index, the most comprehensive survey of local residential property sales, which is produced in partnership with Bank of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, showed that priced growth slowed from 51% in the second quarter to 40% in the third quarter 2007.

Professor McGreal said: “There has been a clear change of sentiment reflected not only by the reduced rate of growth but a significantly lower sales volume, down by a third compared to the same quarter in 2006.

“In essence, there are still high price levels but much lower growth rates and considerably reduced sales activity.”

The Ulster survey is the broadest-based and most authoritative of all those undertaken in Northern Ireland. Its covers some 115 different firms of estate agents ranging from the largest to the smallest.

Bank of Ireland’s Head of Research in Northern Ireland, economist Alan Bridle, said: While the market temperature has obviously cooled, the analogy of the balloon going "hiss" rather than "pop" seems most appropriate.

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