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BBC - How low will house prices go in 2009?

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  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    This thread sums up nicely, how totally meaningless all of the articles posted here really are. Especially from those parties who allegedly have some insight into the market.

    Prefer to make my own mind up, using facts ;)
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    nembot wrote: »
    This thread sums up nicely, how totally meaningless all of the articles posted here really are. Especially from those parties who allegedly have some insight into the market.

    Prefer to make my own mind up, using facts ;)

    What are those facts nembot?
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    What are those facts nembot?

    Well, if I told you... i'd have to kill you ;)
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    These historical threads are great fun. It's a real insight into how so much on this forum is based soley on guesswork and wishful thinking.
    "I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Harry_Powell wrote: »
    These historical threads are great fun. It's a real insight into how so much on this forum is based soley on guesswork and wishful thinking.
    some of the predictions are a bit outrageous - did those expecting 40% off by the end of 2010 really expect another 12 months of -2% each and every month. it's laughable.

    wishful thinking is understatement.
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    Shortly after I first joined this board and just after Martin made it invisible to non-members, a lot of the 'bears' were pontificating on how everyone should be able to see their posts because there can be nothing more Moneysaving than saving 'tens of thousands of pounds' by not buying a house.

    Going off those posts and using hindsight, it looks like they may have cost people several thousands of pounds with that sort of advice. It's staggering how arrogant some people can be about their own opinion (ie: guesses).

    I'm still to be convinced why this board is in Pure Money (a location where real financial advice/assistance is given) when a lot of the content is VI, guesses, wishful thinking or just invented to create an argument.
    "I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Strange, everyone on here ridcules the estimates when they were going up, now they treat them as gospel, I wonder why?
    Top to bottom -20%, bottom by April 09, LR figures June/July.

    This wasn't a bad guess though Harry ;) , but like you say still a guess icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    I don't know why I never commented on any of these types of threads.

    Perhaps because most knew what number I had bet on.:confused:

    They are good to bring up though, but it could be us next year chaps.:)
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Really2 wrote: »
    I don't know why I never commented on any of these types of threads.

    Perhaps because most knew what number I had bet on.:confused:

    They are good to bring up though, but it could be us next year chaps.:)

    I will be doing a mewbie then icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • julieq
    julieq Posts: 2,603 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    I will be doing a mewbie then icon7.gif

    Mewbie is special. He's the only person ever to have been issued with an invisible PPR :rotfl:
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