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2009 House Price Forecast - HPC Board beats Halifax and Nationwide

michaels · 2008-12-19 13:33:11

As posted by Mystic_Trev here, Halifax and Nationwide refuse to make 2009 predictions - but we are made of sterner stuff. The poll is for Year on Year change Jan-Dec 2009 but I thought anyone brave enough could predict quarterly figures for this (and any other economic indicators they care to chose) in the thread. I will…

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StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite

1 January 2010 at 9:04PM

Down between 3% and 10%

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

do you really expect house prices to rise 5% next year, incl. 4% in the 1st quarter? Or have I misread something?

Strange but nearly true (in reality it should have had a minus in front).

'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
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