Because a majority of posters on this forum don't like the truth?! WWW does come across at times as a miserable git but he isn't far off the mark.
For what it's worth I was having lunch with an old school friend who has been an estate agent for best part of 20 years. He said that the property market has died over the last few months unlike he has ever known it. The company viewing diary is empty and they're quite a major company.