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Could today's lemon price increases be the final tipping point for the housing market

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  • Graeme7777
    Graeme7777 Posts: 255 Forumite
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    Good post!
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    You're just sour because you missed the lemon boat. I've made lots of juicy returns.
    I have some affordability figures that prove how it is becoming more possible for first time lemon buyers to enter the market. It's lemon entry my dear Watson.

    I hope I'm right in thinking this has become the worst lemon pun thread, otherwise I may start to look more stupid than normal.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Walletwatch wrote: »
    I think it is those BTS (Buy-To-Serve) guys who own restaurants that are driving the prices up. While inflation is rising on the one hand due to the higher money supply over the past few years, lemoney supply is on the decline thanks to hoarding by the BTS brigade.

    Actually I think you will find it is the recent Buy-To-Letters that have bought all the 'lemons'.

    ..attempts to post yet another pun, with the slightly feeble excuse of being a valid comment on the state of the housing and BTL market.
  • WTF?_2
    WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
    Gorgeous_George wrote: »
    With my local market stall (and the others soon to follow) announcing massive increases in bills to come this winter, I feel this is going to have a double edged impact on the housing market. Firstly those struggling to meet repayments at the moment, and currently falling onto the SVR 'trap' will be hit very hard by the increase in their lemon costs, along with the certain general inflationary effects of these rises.

    :)

    GG

    .... Have you been reading the HPC website George?

    http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=62581&st=0&p=873794&#entry873794
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    Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    You are all just bitter, and taking the pith.

    Toodle-pip!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • moanymoany
    moanymoany Posts: 2,877 Forumite
    Stop stop, I can feel my pips squeaking!!!!!!!!!!
  • Walletwatch
    Walletwatch Posts: 1,055 Forumite
    It's all a matter of over-inflated assets, after all, the market is pricing lemons as though they were melons !!!
    It's always the grass that suffers, irrespective of whether the elephants are fighting or making love !!!
  • LittleMissAspie
    LittleMissAspie Posts: 2,130 Forumite
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    And all the time people were saying limes were dead money. I sit here with my Cuba Libre, laughing at those poor fools.
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    Lemons aren't like houses(*), you're comparing apples with pears.

    As we speak, NuLabour are taking the right decisions for long term, not just for lemons but the whole citrus market.

    (*) New build flats excepted, of course!
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    I won't type this as a link as it is truly .... VERY adult orientated.
    But there's always lemony goodness at lemon party org
    WARNING: DO NOT MAKE A WEB ADDRESS FROM THAT UNLESS YOU PROMISE NOT TO WHINE THAT IT WAS UNNECESSARY


    :)
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