Just when you thought they had finally given up the ghost, the doomsday scenario guys are back.

We've lost count of the years that property market watchers have been saying the wheels are about to come off the UK market and that a price crash is inevitable.

Those shouts of 'Crash!' make such great headlines, but they had been dying down of late.

Dying, but not dead. The latest dose of gloom-mongering comes from Estates Gazette - well Estates Gazette reporting the views of Alastair Stewart, analyst with city brokers, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

'Buy-to-flip flats forecast to flop,' shouted the headline.