They know they can't keep employing so much staff with the low transaction volumes, and they are starting to shift the blame from themselves (" you were warned. We told you we would fire you if you didn't improve your performance. You didn't increase sales, so there is the door"). Low transaction volumes are here to stay. Why would people sell, if they pay H+0.7, and have a 40% mortgage (given the price increases of the last 2 years, that's what most people probably have)? They can ride off a price drop and interest increase without much worries.
And of course it is still questionable whether the price will actually drop, and by how much. The same people have been saying that there will be a price drop for the last 3 years, and have been wrong for the last 3 years. Unless the economy goes belly up (and nothing points to the fact that it will) I don't see why prices should drop until interest rates increase markedly, which is very unlikely to happen for at least a couple of years.