There has been a general economic crisis when it came to real estate in the past year alone in the United Kingdom, and because of this, there is a risk that selling your property at this moment would be hard- simply because the supply is too high to counter the stable but as of the moment insufficient demand. If your house is one of the ordinary houses that everyone has, then it might even be in more risk in the market because equally ordinary properties are alongside yours, competing for attention in a market that is not artificially stabilized by any central institution.

Economic downturns remain a key problem for individuals who want to sell their properties. If in the past decades homes were sold in a matter of weeks, there have been reports that residential structures have stagnated in the market for almost five months. In other countries, five months is more than dead- the property is already a ghost, rotten to the core and not worth buying.