House price drop indicates 'double-dip' for property market

treliac

Cleaver wrote: »

Are you always this purposefully and deliberately obtuse?

Cleaver wrote: »

I really do try to be nice Graham, but it's hard.

You don't need to be so harsh on Graham.

He's entitled to express his opinion and I think he's a nice guy!

nearlynew

Heyman wrote: »

What about 'Spring Bounce'? :rolleyes:

This is just a phrase that the HPI cheerleaders have latched on to over recent months as a way of keeping their hopes up and justifying rises in prices.

Whilst it is a recognised phenomenon, it does not refer to a time of the year when all of a sudden prices jump. Just like magic.

Traditionally, the spring bounce refers to the increase in potential buyers looking for a house and sellers looking to sell. It's just that time of the year when transactions increase.

And conversley, the "winter drop" does not mean that all of a sudden prices fall, but transactions fall.

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Cleaver, it wasn't even aimed at you. It was aimed at Degenerates post after the other thread today had pretty much the same posts inside it.

Apologies, Graham. As you quoted me I assumed you were responding to me.

Graham_Devon wrote: »

You have just assumed I was aiming it at you, which I wasn't. I neither quoted you, or referred to anything you had said.

Again, apologies Graham, but you quoted me and only me, and then made your comments which I then responded to.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=26855455&postcount=15

Graham_Devon wrote: »

So can we quit with the have a dig opening lines? It only makes something very trivial into a stupid tit for tatt argument.

Again, my apologies. Let's start again So, what do you think of the article? I think it suggests theories that can't seriously be generated from the figures. How about you?

Cleaver

treliac wrote: »

You don't need to be so harsh on Graham.

He's entitled to express his opinion and I think he's a nice guy!

Y'know, it's a bit like having a discussion with my 14 year old cousin. He's a really nice guy and is generally ace, as I'm sure Graham is. But, in the way that 14 year olds are liable to do, he will argue black is white and that hot is cold. Just for the fun of it.

Mr.Brown_4

I'm beginning to see why MSE News didn't bother reporting this sort of news. It just leads to arguments. This little dip or hiccup is reminiscent of those early falls a couple of years ago. Could it be the start of another decline?

treliac

Cleaver wrote: »

Y'know, it's a bit like having a discussion with my 14 year old cousin. He's a really nice guy and is generally ace, as I'm sure Graham is. But, in the way that 14 year olds are liable to do, he will argue black is white and that hot is cold. Just for the fun of it.

Ah well, there's a few devils advocates on here.

the_ash_and_the_oak

Mr.Brown wrote: »

I'm beginning to see why MSE News didn't bother reporting this sort of news. It just leads to arguments. This little dip or hiccup is reminiscent of those early falls a couple of years ago. Could it be the start of another decline?

The beginning of the original falls were pretty much exactly after the credit crunch started imo. A pretty big trigger and an almost immediate effect.

While there may be another decline (imo there will be one but don't know when it will start) without a trigger there's nothing really to say one months figures are significant

Graham_Devon

Cleaver wrote: »

Apologies, Graham. As you quoted me I assumed you were responding to me.



Again, apologies Graham, but you quoted me and only me, and then made your comments which I then responded to.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=26855455&postcount=15



Again, my apologies. Let's start again So, what do you think of the article? I think it suggests theories that can't seriously be generated from the figures. How about you?

I quoted you only when you said I was being obtuse. I didn't quote you, or refer to you at all before you told me I was being purposely obtuse. So yes, I was responding to you in my second post, as you had quoted me and were directly talking to me.

I even thanked your post before you said about it being hard to be nice to me!

I'd like to just drop it though, so apolgies accepted and apologies if I said something you took as referring to you in my first post (though I wasn't). So hopefully that's now cleared up!

What do I think of the article? Along with the other one earlier, I think it shows a sign of sentiment out there at the moment. I'm not so sure the Halifax and Nationwide will follow though.

Mr.Brown_4

the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »

The beginning of the original falls were pretty much exactly after the credit crunch started imo. A pretty big trigger and an almost immediate effect.

While there may be another decline (imo there will be one but don't know when it will start) without a trigger there's nothing really to say one months figures are significant

Maybe this time there is less need for a trigger. Simply a running out of ammunition.

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