As any homeowner with a financial brain must realise, there is no meaning to property appreciation unless one is planning to sell downmarket.
All the time one is planning to stay put, the property value has no meaning (unless one is borrowing money against it, which I doubt applies to UK AOPA).
All the time one is planning to keep moving up, one will benefit from a falling property market.
Glad to hear things have improved, bose x. Not sure what you refer to re my "interaction with authority"... I can't remember the last time I had any "interaction with authority".