Halifax: house prices up but hikes set to end

Really2

What a difference a year makes.

I remember people saying I was stupid to buy and would be in NE and much gloating of how right they were and how wrong others are and will be.

Are some people on here so !!!! sure that the only way they can get over things not going there way is taking it out on others?

Prices fell, price rise a bit. I can't understand why people are so angry no matter the direction the market goes.

julieq

Graham dear, you are Captain ramble. That's been pointed out to you many times by many people, and I'd also point out that you (for example) joyously explained that I didn't speak English a few threads ago. You can hardly complain when you have a go if someone has a go back. That is part of the cut and thrust of debate. I certainly take more than I dish out.

With Mewbie, it's different. He's having a go in general at other users of this site for using it in the way it was set up to be used, he called people tw@ s just for refuting Carol's assertions yesterday. And then he complains at the lack of rational debate.

mewbie_2

Really2 wrote: »

I can't understand why people are so angry no matter the direction the market goes.

It's not the market that is the problem. It's not the economy. It's not the figures. It's the interpretation, and deliberate (it must be deliberate they can't be that stupid can they?) misrepresentation of what is happening.

What is the point of living in some bullish fantasy land? Much better surely to have some grasp of what the likely outlook is for jobs, property, markets, etc.

mewbie_2

julieq wrote: »

With Mewbie, it's different. He's having a go in general at other users of this site for using it in the way it was set up to be used, he called people tw@ s just for refuting Carol's assertions yesterday. And then he complains at the lack of rational debate.

When you put it like that it does seem a little unfair. I shall set off on a path to redemption immediately.

julieq

The likely outcome for property rices is an increase over time trending to the long term average of under 3% compounded. We've had a correction after a boom, about 20% behind peak now, and what comes next is anyone's guess. We've had a 40% correction if you take currency devaluation into account too. What more do you want?

Employment will increase as the recovery in the general economy gets going. This process is already starting, it's fragile, but gaining a little momentum as Germany and the US start to pick up.

Just because the interpretation is different to yours doesn't mean it's misrepresentation. The fact is that the analysis from the so called bulls here over the last year has been far more accurate in predicting events than the bear interpretation. You'd be better off understanding why that is instead of calling people "stupid" for constructing models of the market which work better than yours.

Graham_Devon

julieq wrote: »

Graham dear, you are Captain ramble. That's been pointed out to you many times by many people, and I'd also point out that you (for example) joyously explained that I didn't speak English a few threads ago. You can hardly complain when you have a go if someone has a go back. That is part of the cut and thrust of debate. I certainly take more than I dish out.

With Mewbie, it's different. He's having a go in general at other users of this site for using it in the way it was set up to be used, he called people tw@ s just for refuting Carol's assertions yesterday. And then he complains at the lack of rational debate.

Cut & Thrust of debate innit.

Mewbies just saying what he thinks, rather than resorting to childish slurs about professions

I know which I'd rather. A spades a spade.

mewbie_2

julieq wrote: »

The usual stuff...

There you go again.

Really2

mewbie wrote: »

It's not the market that is the problem. It's not the economy. It's not the figures. It's the interpretation, and deliberate (it must be deliberate they can't be that stupid can they?) misrepresentation of what is happening.

What is the point of living in some bullish fantasy land? Much better surely to have some grasp of what the likely outlook is for jobs, property, markets, etc.

remember last year?
People saying I should never have purchased. People saying I will be in NE. People calling me all sorts of names just for saying I did not think prices would fall lower than 35% in nominal terms.
Let people have an opinion without getting angry the good thing about open debate is people hear both sides.

You may be right about where you think the market is going, but you have to admit it is looking a lot less likely we are going to see 40%+ falls compared to last year.

There is a real possibility the bottom was this year. Only the future will tell us but no amount of huffing or puffing will change or influence it.

chucky

julieq wrote: »

With Mewbie, it's different. He's having a go in general at other users of this site for using it in the way it was set up to be used, he called people tw@ s just for refuting Carol's assertions yesterday. And then he complains at the lack of rational debate.

but, but, but mewbie likes to give out and mock others but when he is the one being laughed at and being made the fool he doesn't like it.

being the centre of attention is his thing, disrupting a discussion he doesn't agree with is what he does. being stuck in mewbie land and not being open to others views is his thing.

i don't mind mewbie - he entertains me.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

chucky wrote: »

i don't mind mewbie - he entertains me.

Aye.... Entertaining he is....

But you just know, somewhere, there's a village missing it's idiot.