House prices at April 2004 levels? where I cannot find them

ukcarper

Most estates whenever they were built contain roads of similar houses but even though I quite like some of the newer houses the main drawback as far as I am concern is how close they are to each other.

mewbie_2

ukcarper wrote: »

Most estates whenever they were built contain roads of similar houses but even though I quite like some of the newer houses the main drawback as far as I am concern is how close they are to each other.

The roads for older estates did tend to be straight, and did tend to fairly quickly lead to a High street, or some other point of reference. These new builds are basically a field, and a planner without resort to a ruler. The houses are smaller and of a lesser standard than those built over a hundred years ago. They put me in mind of some kind of mental institution where people live out their matrix style imaginery lives in an utterly pointless existence, tied into the system through debt slavery to huge mortgages.

Yes it's Sunday night. Yes it's work tomorrow. Yes I'm bored.

ukcarper

I don't think that they are all smaller and lesser standard but a lot are I expect they meander around so that they can cram more in.
I still think the worst thing is that you can almost watch the tele in the house behind you.

mewbie_2

ukcarper wrote: »

I still think the worst thing is that you can almost watch the tele in the house behind you.

And the poor sods in that house can only watch your MSE screen.

lethal0r

mewbie your posts are spot on. i hate new estates for the same reasons, also there are usually hundreds of houses clumped together with no local amenities or shops nearby.

they should get rid of the aspirational names and rename them in honour of the people who live there - chav drive, bargain booze close, teenage divorcee avenue etc...

bored you may be but you have entertained me.

ukcarper

Fortunately I don’t live on a new estate and can just about see the houses behind me.

If you think clumped together is bad they buit a new estate near me and the access road is between two low bridges and you can't get a normal removal van any where near them.

beingjdc

Rollerball wrote: »

Usually people who market their properties through estate agents are trying to sell them. Why else would they do it? For a bit of a laugh?

Because they've agreed to sell up as part of a divorce but don't really want to move, so are trying to look like they've put it up for sale without actually attracting any bids.

ukcarper

beingjdc wrote: »

Because they've agreed to sell up as part of a divorce but don't really want to move, so are trying to look like they've put it up for sale without actually attracting any bids.

That's one

will-he-payitoff

One of the properties Ive been to view has been on the market 18 months and they have not reduced the price at all in that time. They also said they are not open to offers, looks like it will be a long time before they sell.

IveSeenTheLight

themanbearpig wrote: »

Actually no, they arn't competely useless. If you have a look at the distribution of the price falls around the country, the standard deviation is pretty low.
I don't believe there are any areas that fall massively out of the average.
What people need to understand is that averages are just that, averages. But if you look at the statistics a little more carefully, every region of the UK has lost around 15%.

Abolute b0llocks.

Historically, I can show areas that recovered within one year in the last correction and did not follow the UK average of a 7 year drop from peak to trough.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=18398993&postcount=72

Currently, I can show areas that have stagnated


Data taken from RoSEA (Register of Scotland Executive Agency)
http://www.ros.gov.uk/productsandservices/lpd_stats.html