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Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

But if you believe the above why do you think further falls of 30-50%?

Not picking on you but your post is bullish in the outlook for housing, thus house prices.

I don't.

I believed in those falls from peak. Not from 20% down.

chucky

Graham_Devon wrote: »

But we live in the UK. And people DO buy houses in the main.

without just stripping out a sentence out of your post and highlighting it - but your statement is only correct in the last 25 years and applies to this or the last generation. previous to the number of home owners was very small.

Graham_Devon

chucky wrote: »

without just stripping out a sentence out of your post and highlighting it - but your statement is only correct in the last 25 years and applies to this or the last generation. previous to the number of home owners was very small.

I don't quite believe that.

If you have the figures to prove it though it would be good.

Last 25 years takes us back to 1984. I don't think buying houses has become "main stream" since then, or that the number of home owners was very small.

chucky

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I don't quite believe that.

If you have the figures to prove it though it would be good.

Last 25 years takes us back to 1984. I don't think buying houses has become "main stream" since then, or that the number of home owners was very small.

i actually thought that it was much lower in the 1980s i actually meant 1970s where it was 50%, it was at about 58% in the early 80s - it's above 70% now.

it looks like the mid-1950s was when home buying really started.


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StevieJ

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I don't quite believe that.

If you have the figures to prove it though it would be good.

Last 25 years takes us back to 1984. I don't think buying houses has become "main stream" since then, or that the number of home owners was very small.

That fits in nicely with Maggie selling off the council houses

Really2

StevieJ wrote: »

That fits in nicely with Maggie selling off the council houses

I think you will find labor have sold more:)

They never stopped it and actively encouraged councils to sell housing stock to HA's.
That money as never been re-invested.
I think labors policy on social housing as been worse than any government, it as been virtually all sold but no stock replenished.

Graham_Devon

chucky wrote: »

i actually thought that it was much lower in the 1980s i actually meant 1970s where it was 50%, it was at about 58% in the early 80s - it's above 70% now.

it looks like the mid-1950s was when home buying really started.


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I'm confused.

Are you stating 50% is a "very small number", but 70% is high and that I'm wrong in stating what I did basing my stuf on the UK and reality?

If you had said 60 years ago, house buying wasn't mainstream, I may have agreed.

Large difference between 25 years and 60 years though

Would be interested to see the rental line past 2004. Wonder if it's gone up quite a bit?

chucky

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'm confused.

not for the first time

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Are you stating 50% is a "very small number", but 70% is high and that I'm wrong in stating what I did basing my stuf on the UK and reality?

If you had said 60 years ago, house buying wasn't mainstream, I may have agreed.

Large difference between 25 years and 60 years though

that's exactly what i said in my post - if anything home ownership is increasing

Graham_Devon

chucky wrote: »

not for the first time



that's exactly what i said in my post - if anything home ownership is increasing

Right, the reason I'm confused is you regard 58% as a very small number, but 70% as high?

Not gonna argue with you, just don't get that

bluey890

carolt wrote: »

What's a p1key?

I note the site blanks it out when I try and write it properly, so I must assume you're being rude.

Rude, on top of being deceitful.

Still, I expect no more from landlords, or would-be-landlords.

A p1key is someone who travels around with no fixed abode.

If you dislike landlords so much, why give them your money?