Next Year 40% of Buyers Will Be CASH Buyers- The Times.

pickledpink

poppysarah wrote: »

This is why I think we're so far off the bottom. A lot of people don't need to move, they just want to. The property !!!!!! encourages people to put their stamp on a place and move on. It's going to come as a long cold hard shock to people when their pretty houses don't sell for months and months. I think it'll take 18 months on the market for some of them to realise.

I've got property bee listings where people haven't altered the price since March (when I installed it) - that to me indicates they're in no hurry, and they think that this dip is only temporary.

I think a lot more people have to lose their jobs, more bad news in big quantities and people will slowly finally work out that their house is a home and not a cashmachine.
And sadly I think the whole economy is totally knackered until we can completely disengage the link between it and housing.
We need to make things other than bricks and we need to buy things made in this country and not cheap tat from china etc.

I also think we should stop catching fish in scotland and sending them to china for processing. That's just plain insane.

It sounds like you're HOPING people are going to lose their jobs and homes, Poppy.:o Nice.

Let's hope if you (or the people who have THANKED your post) ever manage to buy a home in the future, there isn't another crash and you all lose your jobs.

Davesnave

pickledpink wrote: »

It sounds like you're HOPING people are going to lose their jobs and homes, Poppy.:o Nice.

Let's hope if you (or the people who have THANKED your post) ever manage to buy a home in the future, there isn't another crash and you all lose your jobs.

I'd go further than poppysarah. Never mind the British economy, the planet is 'totally knackered,' unless we can find something other than greed & conspicuous consumption to motivate people. I believe this changed motivation may come via the slow realisation that accumulating wealth is of little benefit, when a wrecked planet is all we can pass on to our children.

So, yes, people may indeed lose their jobs, and worse, but we're witnessing shifts that are way outside anyone's full control. The cosy little world you & I have inhabited is going, for good, but what comes in its place will be down to chance, as well as judgement.

For these reasons, I'd be a fool to think that any of these monumental changes will definitely benefit me, or any other individual.

Right, I'll go and get my tin hat......