DON'T expect any residential or commercial property sector 'bombshells' from Governor Chris Patten when he delivers his annual address to the Legislative Council this afternoon.
He is not expected to announce any new measures to deter speculation.
Nor is he likely to ask banks to increase their mortgage lending ceiling, experts in industry and Legco said.
More land for residential housing development may be released, but not enough to make a difference to housing affordability.
Having put the property sector top of his political agenda over the past 12 months, analysts said the Governor would probably 'let sleeping dogs lie'.
Most agents said they generally agreed with this tack, and said forces now at work in the market were doing a good enough job of regulating prices in both the residential and commercial sectors.