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Phil Spencer speaks!

WTF?_2
WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
http://www.garrington.co.uk/news/market_comments/

phil-spencer-head-shoulders.jpg

Current consensus seems to be that there will not be a turnaround in the market until well into 2010 and we would agree with this. We would also add that risks surrounding the housing market have increased over the last few weeks. This is partly due to what will now be a continuing paralysis throughout the mortgage market.
Can't wait to hear what Kirsty has to say, I'd like to hear this stuff 'straight from the horse's mouth', so to speak :D
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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.
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  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    !!!!!!? wrote: »
    Can't wait to hear what Kirsty has to say,

    I imagine it will be something along the lines of knocking walls down to add value. That's all she ever seemed to say.
  • Gangstabird
    Gangstabird Posts: 1,920 Forumite
    I couldn't even read anymore after this;

    ''Not one of the major housing market commentator’s fore sore these events ''

    This killed any love I had simply for the bad grammar.
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    Kirsty says its stamp duty, I think she said if the government raises the threshold to 250k everything will be dandy. Well done Kirsty goto the corner of the room with a big cone shaped hat with a D on it
  • BiggaThanBen
    BiggaThanBen Posts: 529 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    ad9898 wrote: »
    Kirsty says its stamp duty, I think she said if the government raises the threshold to 250k everything will be dandy.

    Actually it is not a bad idea .. e.g. for two years from 2010 ?
    All my life my mother told me the storm was coming (c) Terminator 3
  • napoleon
    napoleon Posts: 611 Forumite
    When's the last time anyone actually saw Kirsty? I reckon the two of them had a barney and Phil did her in and buried her under the patio
  • napoleon
    napoleon Posts: 611 Forumite
    phil-spencer-head-shoulders.jpg


    Without doubt this is the most smackable face in Great Britain.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    I imagine it will be something along the lines of knocking walls down to add value. That's all she ever seemed to say.

    That's very unfair. She also thought that getting rid of Stamp Duty was the magic pill.
    ...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'.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    I imagine it will be something along the lines of knocking walls down to add value. That's all she ever seemed to say.

    Her taste in clothes was great.:rolleyes:
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    pickles110564 wrote: »
    Her taste in clothes was great.:rolleyes:

    I love how we talk about her in the past tence, long may it continue:D
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Kill, Kill, Mame!!
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