With rates projecting to come down, does it make sense to ask for lower price or ask for concessions and use that to buy points?

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Depends on the individual circumstance.

Lower price will always help you. Asking for concessions to buy points helps only until you refi. But the seller may also be more interested in a higher price / more concessions than a lower price with no concessions. So it all comes down to what the seller is interested in.

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If rates go down, then the price of the house will go up

I wouldn't buy points in this environment because if rates do drop and you refinance you may not be in the loan long enough to gain back the interest savings compared to the cost of the points.

You could look at a 2/1 buydown which is a temporary buydown (basically the seller pays 2% of the interest year 1 and 1 % year 2, paid upfront at closing to the lender) and that might make more sense since all of the savings would be over a shorter period of time rather than stretching it out over a longer mortgage that you might not be in forever.

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