"The mood music in London and the South East is very much flatter than elsewhere ... this is likely to persist into the new year"

RICS' latest monthly survey delivers its weakest near-term sales expectation reading since it started, in 1999

Sales activity has "rallied noticeably" since May, report surveyors.

"Opinions are increasingly divided as to whether the property market is enjoying a temporary blip in activity due to the released pent-up demand, or whether what is being witnessed is a ‘once in a generation’…