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House Price falls down 4% year on year (Halifax)

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Hi Just heard on the news, house prices fall just under 4% year on year (Halifax). The crash is really here, now confirmed.
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  • neas
    neas Posts: 3,801 Forumite
    i read on bbc it was 0.9% Year on Year fall ? and 1.3% fall month on month.
  • Paul_N_4
    Paul_N_4 Posts: 344 Forumite
    neas wrote: »
    i read on bbc it was 0.9% Year on Year fall ? and 1.3% fall month on month.

    On the news they said -3.7% YoY, but in print they've put -0.9% :confused:
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Declan on BBC said -3.7% year on year 10 mins ago, no official Halifax link to confirm yet.
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  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    The only 3.7% in the report refers to wages. Maybe Declan just mis read the wrong figure in front of 5 million viewers live on National TV.
    :D

    Its still £2,500 off a price of a London property for me but I would of rather the £8,000 though.:rolleyes:
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  • Paul_N_4
    Paul_N_4 Posts: 344 Forumite
    Oh its the way Halifax do their 3 month average thing. Using their 3 month average, its down 0.9% YoY.

    Doing a straight Apr 07 - Apr 08 (like Nationwide), its down 3.7% YoY. Ouch.
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Paul_N wrote: »
    Oh its the way Halifax do their 3 month average thing. Using their 3 month average, its down 0.9% YoY.

    Doing a straight Apr 07 - Apr 08 (like Nationwide), its down 3.7% YoY. Ouch.

    Cool, I'm still a tad confused. Waiting for Business segment on BBC to listen carefully.:confused:
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  • Tozer
    Tozer Posts: 3,518 Forumite
    What is the definition of a "crash"? More than 4% I suspect and for a sustained period. How much have prices gone up by over 5 years?

    I think this is a correction having regard to all of the circumstances in the World - particularly credit liquidity and economic slow down. I don't see prices losing more than a couple of year's growth though.

    Personally I've just exchanged contracts on our sale. We'll sit this out and see what happens. However, I will be buying back in just as soon as it seems sensible to do so.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Tozer wrote: »
    What is the definition of a "crash"? More than 4% I suspect and for a sustained period. How much have prices gone up by over 5 years?

    I think this is a correction having regard to all of the circumstances in the World - particularly credit liquidity and economic slow down. I don't see prices losing more than a couple of year's growth though.

    Personally I've just exchanged contracts on our sale. We'll sit this out and see what happens. However, I will be buying back in just as soon as it seems sensible to do so.

    My understand is that a crash is defined at >20% losses from peak.
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