House prices are close to affordable levels, reveals survey... BUY!! BUY!!! BUY!!!

ess0two

carolt wrote: »

Amazingly, chucky, I get it not from some google page, but from being alive and looking to buy in those areas at that point. Lots of friends bought at that time, at those prices. I personally viewed a number of properties.

Sorry - whatever google may tell you - I was there!

So we have to take your word,and not that of the facts and figures documented.

chucky

NDG, i know what you're saying and you are right - i've responded to Carol's post about Camden trying to make out it was very cheap in 1996.

Somers Town and Kentish Town are in Camden so they're not going to be overly priced. But I bet Hampstead and Highgate will be - they're in Camden too.

My point was just to show that Carol doesn't really know what she talks about... not you...

chucky

carolt wrote: »

Amazingly, chucky, I get it not from some google page, but from being alive and looking to buy in those areas at that point. Lots of friends bought at that time, at those prices. I personally viewed a number of properties.

Sorry - whatever google may tell you - I was there!

Carol - trying to deflect and argument and trying to take it off topic will not get you anywhere really. If you can't see it, you can't see it and just shows that you missed out in 1996 and you'll miss out again now and your desperate attempt to put an invalid point across.

This is the Halifax figures, it's the same place you get your info that prices have dropped and are so jubilant about. Funny that the Halifax price index numbers don't suit anymore...

Stick to cheese price increases probably reached your level there.

carolt

Right - my best friend from school bought a 2 bed in Belsize Park - v swish! - for 80K exactly around that time - maybe 95? at the earliest but certainly not more than months before. I know of another example, in Primrose Hill - also 80K, same period.

I viewed flats in Ealing, Haringey (nice bit), and Balham for 55-65K - lots of them - in 95-96. Also Camden (area NOT borough, as ndg has helpfully elaborated) - for c.72K.

You are wrong.

Sorry.

ess0two

Seems you missed the boat then, by your own admission to viewing,hence the gripes and groans with prices now.

chucky

carolt wrote: »

Right - my best friend from school bought a 2 bed in Belsize Park - v swish! - for 80K exactly around that time - maybe 95? at the earliest but certainly not more than months before. I know of another example, in Primrose Hill - also 80K, same period.

I viewed flats in Ealing, Haringey (nice bit), and Balham for 55-65K - lots of them - in 95-96. Also Camden (area NOT borough, as ndg has helpfully elaborated) - for c.72K.

You are wrong.

Sorry.

I'm not going to bother with giving you an example of prices of Primrose Hill, it would go straight over your head... again... also you made a horrendous mistake not buying then!

Yes you are right Carol. You have just re-written history and the Halifax Price Index is garbage and wrong because in your own words "I was there!".

WTF?_2

ess0two wrote: »

So we have to take your word,and not that of the facts and figures documented.

Yes - Carol should immediately see a hypnotist and bring her memories into line with what has been trawled up so far from a bit of google searching ...... :rolleyes2 She can't possibly have seen or experienced it herself if it can't be found on an internet search.

carolt

chucky wrote: »

I'm not going to bother with giving you an example of prices of Primrose Hill, it would go straight over your head... again... also you made a horrendous mistake not buying then!

Yes you are right Carol. You have just re-written history and the Halifax Price Index is garbage and wrong because in your own words "I was there!".

You don't know where Primrose Hill is, do you?

(Clue: it's the 'posh' bit of Camden - you won't find a separate listing for it.... )

Of course, in financial terms I made a horrendous mistake not buying then - you don't have to be a genius to work that out!

But in personal terms, it's worked out brilliantly, and I feel it was meant to be. If I'd bought a house (well, it would have been flat, then), back then, I wouldn't have been in the position I was to meet my OH and have my 3 wonderful children. So can't really complain.

carolt

!!!!!!? wrote: »

Yes - Carol should immediately see a hypnotist and bring her memories into line with what has been trawled up so far from a bit of google searching ...... :rolleyes2 She can't possibly have seen or experienced it herself if it can't be found on an internet search.

Better tell my friend to change the deeds on her flat too - as the price she paid doesn't 'agree' with chucky's analysis!

ess0two

carolt wrote: »

Better tell my friend to change the deeds on her flat too - as the price she paid doesn't 'agree' with chucky's analysis!

Keep digging that hole....................