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Spring Bounces - "tHey never sustain"

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  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mech wrote: »
    The dip in the 1990s wasn't simply caused by a sell-off of UK property.
    Er what was it caused by?
  • bluey890
    bluey890 Posts: 1,020 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    Dervish has never posted any facts and figures in any of her posts. talking of which i've never seen one of your posts with any facts and figures to back up your argument - just urban myths :T

    15% of Dervish's posts contain facts and figures.
    80% contain spelling mistakes, made on purpose.

    95% of regular board members know the above to be true.
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  • FungusFighter
    FungusFighter Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    bluey890 wrote: »
    15% of Dervish's posts contain facts and figures.
    80% contain spelling mistakes, made on purpose.

    95% of regular board members know the above to be true.

    But 100% of regular board members don't give a !!!!!!;)
    You can't win an argument with a stupid person.

    I'm dyslexic ie I can't be @rsed to check for typos
  • mech_2
    mech_2 Posts: 620 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2009 at 6:10PM
    mewbie wrote: »
    Er what was it caused by?
    Hefty interest rate hikes to prop up the pound, making mortgages unaffordable perhaps?

    Just blindly looking at patterns in one price curve in isolation is a recipe for epic fail.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    But 100% of regular board members don't give a !!!!!!;)

    Well said Mushroom.:T
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    dervish wrote: »
    OK so is this is called teh Spring Bounce in House Prices?

    Facts and Statistics going back to the 1970s will prove that Spring Bounces "never sustain" - they are always just a blip, an abhorrent aberration, a foolish falsehood, a temporary transition.

    House Prices will continue to fall becuase most people in this county siply want them too and expect them too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_property_market_in_the_United_Kingdom

    Addowney, Fatpit, Napolen or whichever puppet you are using, you really are sounding desperate but as long as you buy before next spring you wont have missed the tide.
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2009 at 8:03PM
    People thinking the worst is over and buying 'cheap' houses or new cars with the scrappage-scheme and jetting off on holiday are going to get a horrible, horrible shock in the next few months as the next phase of the slump kicks-in.

    None of the main political parties are daring to tell voters the full implications of ballooning public borrowing, and public spending reaching a historical slice of GDP and the mill-stone of personal debt as IRs rise again. The 'emergency' austerity budget of June 2010 will crush optimism for years, as taxes rise, public spending is slashed and we face up to our own 'lost decade'. Obviously, the middle-classes will be pauperised as public-sector cushy jobs are swept-away and the pensionable age for school-leavers will the ratcheted up to 70.

    The years of 1946-1952 will be revisited as making-do, grow-your-own, thrift and forgoing any and all luxuries becomes the norm. And just to add some frisson, 25% of all births in Britain are to immigrants and the second most popular name is Mohammed. There will always be an England?

    We've never had it so bad.
  • dervish
    dervish Posts: 926 Forumite
    500 Posts
    amcluesent wrote: »

    The years of 1946-1952 will be revisited as making-do, grow-your-own, thrift and forgoing any and all luxuries becomes the norm. And just to add some frisson, 25% of all births in Britain are to immigrants and the second most popular name is Mohammed. There will always be an England?

    We've never had it so bad.


    some of that is genuinely disturbing... :(
  • bluey890
    bluey890 Posts: 1,020 Forumite
    dervish wrote: »
    some of that is genuinely disturbing... :(

    Press: dervish admits to being disturbed.

    Amazing how things can get twisted.
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  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    bluey890 wrote: »
    Press: dervish admits to being disturbed.

    Amazing how things can get twisted.
    Only because you fuelled his normal racist comments.
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