Is the UK housing market quietly tanking?

I've been "in the market" in Bristol for the last couple of months. And you know what, nothing seems to be selling.

Dirt cheap properties sell (not necessarily that quickly), and there is that handful of properties that get listed for a high-ish price and then seem to sell within a day (something a bit fishy about those ones), but broadly speaking, sensibly priced properties (vs last year) seem to be sitting on the market for months. Even big discounts don't seem to be getting them moving quickly. I've had a few agents basically begging me to make an offer - any offer - on a property. But I'm not getting offers on my own either.

There was some chat about people waiting for the budget, but that was a few weeks ago and nothing seems to have changed. If anything the budget would be an incentive to act now as Stamp Duty will be going up in April.

Bristol was definitely one of the places that got overheated in the post-COVID property boom - is it getting a correction? Are people a lot more concerned about a Labour government than they are letting on? Or is it just because we're in November now and people are only interested in Christmas?