Is the housing market about to turn?

Dan:_4

mewbie wrote: »

arn't...lol

that's me done for tonight.

signing out!

sjaypink

Dan: wrote: »

it was a poor attempt at humour.

good of you to admit

house123

Thanks for ruining the post. I really hoped I might just get an insight in to what was going on out there.

brit1234

Who here reckons prices will rise and who reckons fall.

I am well and tuely in the fall camp and have not seen one reason why they will rise.

Cleaver

brit1234 wrote: »

Who here reckons prices will rise and who reckons fall.

I am well and tuely in the fall camp and have not seen one reason why they will rise.

I think they will rise and fall in an up and down pattern over the next hundred years. However, the long term average trend will be a general, steady rise.

I have no camp.

mewbie_2

house123 wrote: »

Thanks for ruining the post. I really hoped I might just get an insight in to what was going on out there.

Sorry house - we were enjoying ourselves. Your opening post pretty much covered everything, apart from your question which was blip or not? Well that is what we argue about daily without ever reaching 100% conclusion. Some say blip, some say no.

Now at least your thread remained fairly civil and fun instead of turning into an endless round and round argument about the direction of house prices.

Answer is? We don't really know.

Dan:_4

brit1234 wrote: »

Who here reckons prices will rise and who reckons fall.

I am well and tuely in the fall camp and have not seen one reason why they will rise.

I can't understand why they have been rising since February

Graham_Devon

house123 wrote: »

Thanks for ruining the post. I really hoped I might just get an insight in to what was going on out there.

You think this was ruining a post?

You have a lot to learn yet young grasshopper, a lot to learn!

Graham_Devon

Dan: wrote: »

I can't understand why they have been rising since February

Because fools part easily with money?

Or is that money parts easily with fools? Or from fools? Or nothing like that at all? Looks quite good either way really.

I'm confusing myself, but I know what I mean, which is all that matters!

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Because fools part easily with money?

Or is that money parts easily with fools? Or from fools? Or nothing like that at all?

I have a really simple theory, but I have no idea if it's right.

Lots of people, in general, want to own a house to live in. Most people aren't obsessed with the exact price of a house, they just want one they can pretty much afford. Houses have gone down in price a bit over the past few years, now they are going up again, so quite a few people have gone out and bought one over the past couple of months on the basis that they're a bit cheaper now than they have been for a while.

That's my theory.