More sales in the present will only attract a growing flow of buyers if high sales levels are expected to be sustained.
"Houses stay on the market longer, the supply is larger and they're not getting the full flow of buyers who could be bidding," she said.
The firm said over the five years to the end of 2018 it still expected prices to rise more quickly in the south-east and east of England than in the capital "as evidence mounts of the flow of buyers and equity out from the capital".
The slate of engines and leading-edge technology back up the racy lines, and should ensure a steady flow of buyers to showrooms – for the first year or two.
A flow of new buyers may change the calculus.
There has been a constant flow of new buyers for the last four months".
"This indicated huge latent demand, and, meanwhile, the normal flow of new buyers was also being added to this group.
The money goes to places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, London and San Francisco, where a heavy flow of Chinese buyers has driven up property prices.
As the flow of new buyers dries up, price growth will necessarily slow, tipping the credit loop into contraction.
But even before the financial meltdown of the last few weeks, there was growing concern that the flow of international buyers into the United States was slowing.
