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Gazumping is back

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  • blakester
    blakester Posts: 139 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    moship wrote: »
    Gazumping is back as house prices rise and buyers fight over fewer properties, so all you losers living with your parents or wasting money on rent which could have paid your mortgage by now, have missed the boat AGAIN!!!!
    :beer:


    If you can manage it, type WWW. in front of timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article6390804.ece to read the TRUTH

    Thats quite an entrance onto the forum with that post, what do you do for an encore? I think there is alcohol involved somewhere:D
  • pawpurrs
    pawpurrs Posts: 3,910 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    moship wrote: »
    Gazumping is back as house prices rise and buyers fight over fewer properties, so all you losers living with your parents or wasting money on rent which could have paid your mortgage by now, have missed the boat AGAIN!!!!
    :beer:
    www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article6390804.ece to read the TRUTH

    Trying to get link to work
    Pawpurrs x ;)
  • beingjdc
    beingjdc Posts: 1,680 Forumite
    edited 30 May 2009 at 5:28PM
    Shall I bite? Shall I suggest that the original poster get out of the ex-council studio they took out a seven times salary mortgage to buy and go into the sunshine?

    I'll stay indoors in the 2-bed 2-bath Zone 2 flat by the Thames with the 25ft living room, of which I rent half for the equivalent of a £140k interest only mortgage at 5.5% :)

    Maybe I should buy down the road before I miss the boat, what can I get round here for the same money?

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20672528.html if they took a really low offer. No thanks!

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20916649.html is round the corner. I'd move there, do you think they'd accept an offer of 60% less than asking price?
    Hurrah, now I have more thankings than postings, cheers everyone!
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    moship wrote: »
    Gazumping is back as house prices rise and buyers fight over fewer properties, so all you losers living with your parents or wasting money on rent which could have paid your mortgage by now, have missed the boat AGAIN!!!!
    :beer:


    If you can manage it, type WWW. in front of timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article6390804.ece to read the TRUTH

    Spotting a socky is so easy, 1 post, yet so much familiarity with the 'losers' on the board, still I won't be gazumping anyone, I'll leave that to the mugs.:D

    So who is it, islandannie or pickledpink, or both;), roll up and place ye bets.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lonestar1 wrote: »
    Who wants a boat ? Give it another 12 months for prices to bottom out and what would buy you a boat today will buy you a cruise liner next year

    Tally-Hoe

    Don't tell me i've bought at the peak again :mad:
  • siliconbits
    siliconbits Posts: 389 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Gazumping is DEFINITELY back... Just been Gazumped on the phone by the estate agent who told me how high I could go on a property which is apparently under offer (but not on their website)
    :rolleyes: Links are a man's best friends.com
  • Saver-Rob
    Saver-Rob Posts: 570 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    sock_puppets_250x251.jpg
  • System
    System Posts: 178,376 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    News flash. Not everyone who has a differing opinion/experience is a sockie.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • Yakubu22
    Yakubu22 Posts: 640 Forumite
    500 Posts
    moship wrote: »
    Gazumping is back as house prices rise and buyers fight over fewer properties, so all you losers living with your parents or wasting money on rent which could have paid your mortgage by now, have missed the boat AGAIN!!!!
    :beer:


    If you can manage it, type WWW. in front of timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article6390804.ece to read the TRUTH

    I do worry when i read [EMAIL="cr_@p"]cr_@p[/EMAIL] like this. Not for me, but for someone else who may actually accept this rubbish as gospel and genuinely feel they've missed the proverbial boat.

    For people who understand (just a little bit) the market, the economy and what a recession means. Just sit back and laugh, at a blatant wind up merchant
    "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. Those who don't understand, dont matter."
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