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carefullycautious · 2008-11-15 15:01:59

Hi I am a newbie here and find the site thoroughly addictive. Right a brief synopsis, we are a middle aged couple who have until now rented and saved like mad. We would love to be able to buy a property outright and be mortgage and rent free. We are debt free from living within our means. At the present prices we would…

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besonders1 Posts: 582 Forumite

15 November 2008 at 8:21PM

We bought a house in the early 80's at £16,000

oohh that makes my really jealous of my parents! How much easier things were in mum and dads era! I wish I was buying then:rolleyes:[/quote]

There is a limit to what they can drop to
The only others that will drop are the repossessions - its always been the same ! Everyone will start fighting over them and the prices will shoot up again !

Interesting point but by the time the sell they will be trashed up by vandels and have all the copper pipes taken from them and nice big ugly metal boards on the windows. Its certainly all of the repos I have seen for sale end up like that.

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