The market will dictate the price, a property is only worth what a prospective purchaser/s are willing to pay for it and not necessarily what the owner thinks they can sell it for. Other factors are whether a property is being marketed in a buoyant or sluggish market, some areas can buck the trend, much depends on where you intend to buy. Look on Right Move to see how quickly the turnover is the area/s you favour, be sure to click on the "sold subject to contract" whilst doing that. Try and gage the level of interest in the property you are interested in from the agent involved, although you can't always take everything they say on face value it's in their interests to sell a property and a bit of poetic licence may come into play.
We sold our last house when the market peaked, our agents managed that within a week having arranged an open day, which produced three offers, two at the asking price and one just below. Previously we'd put it on the market a couple of years before that and got an offer some £60,000 below the asking price. Well that's the prerogative of a prospective buyer, to be bold, ridiculous even in chancing their arm, but also the prerogative of a vendor to turn down such an offer, which we did. At that time we went back to the drawing board, it wasn't imperative for us to move, with the thought maybe the time isn't right just now. So that's an example of the difference between the market being sluggish and literally going mad, needless all sorts of factors come into play with house buying and selling, certainly the pandemic made a lot of people reassess their lives, particularly as to where and how they wanted to live.
Good luck to you in your house search and hope you find something that suits you.