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  Radio 4 this morning stated that house transactions are at a 30 year low. The crippling economy has flattended and demoralised the housing market throughout the country and of course here in Dover. Nobody has the cash confidence to contemplate a move, all prefaring to batten down the hatches and weather out the storm.
  
  Also on the topical pace in this arena, news editor Kathy Bailes in this weeks Dover Express did a large article highlighting the woes of the poor harassed local estate agent.
  
  "House Sales Slump" says Kathy on page 6 june 5.
  
  Of course as a body of people, estate agents score pretty low on the popularity richter scale, so should we care if they go out of business? There seriously isnt enough transactions in Dover to sustain them all.
  
  One glimmer of hope for them and the local market seems to be that ould chestnut...the High Speed Train. Its all going to change with the High Speed Train or so we often hear. But where does this confidence come from. I suspect its more a case of wishful thinking and hopeful aspiration rather than stark reality.
  
  Can you see all the London high flyers beating a path to Tower Hamlets or Buckland..ermm No I dont thinkso..and those with less than high flyer status wont be able to afford the exhorbitant train fares which come attached to high speed performance.
  
  In the meantime anyhow, all our proverbial boots are filled with downturn economic concrete and we are unable to move a yard without crippling financial pain on all fronts.

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