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MSE News: House price rises 'set to stall'

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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    Hamish.. You've not replied to my post.

    Look! You're avoiding the question.

    Hah!

    Seems to be a trend. He's avoided me since last week now...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Seems to be a trend. He's avoided me since last week now...


    It's past his bedtime, maybe you should wait for the next school day to start.
  • cootambear
    cootambear Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    House prices in a `normal` market should fall autumn winter and rise spring/summer. Stability this late in the cycle suggests firmness, and only slight falls to come dec-mar (2-5% at a guess).
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

    (Sylvia Pankhurst).
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    cootambear wrote: »
    House prices in a `normal` market should fall autumn winter and rise spring/summer. Stability this late in the cycle suggests firmness, and only slight falls to come dec-mar (2-5% at a guess).

    It was my understanding that both the Nationwide and Halifax use 'seasonal adjustment'.
  • Emy1501
    Emy1501 Posts: 1,798 Forumite
    cootambear wrote: »
    House prices in a `normal` market should fall autumn winter and rise spring/summer. Stability this late in the cycle suggests firmness, and only slight falls to come dec-mar (2-5% at a guess).

    No they dont especially according to NW. Look at their figures for this decade and you will find prices only really fell in the winter months in 2007-2008. They have risen pretty much every other year and often have outdone the spring months.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    Hamish.. You've not replied to my post.

    Look! You're avoiding the question.

    Hah!

    There you go carol...

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=27393593&postcount=18
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    There you go carol...

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=27393593&postcount=18

    Here you go Hamish - page 3, post 52.

    I'll carry on waiting for you to answer & apologise....

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2103669&page=3
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • new_home_owner_3
    new_home_owner_3 Posts: 1,191 Forumite
    Who cares :confused: its common knowledge house prices drop in winter months, im just surprised how much they have picked up in the last 9 months.

    Im sure when spring comes the buyers will be back and house prices will steadily rise, i mean how many people would want to move house over christmas, people just have too much on over christmas.
  • Emy1501
    Emy1501 Posts: 1,798 Forumite
    new_home_owner wrote: »
    Who cares :confused: its common knowledge house prices drop in winter months, im just surprised how much they have picked up in the last 9 months.

    Im sure when spring comes the buyers will be back and house prices will steadily rise, i mean how many people would want to move house over christmas, people just have too much on over christmas.

    Where the evidence? As they do not.
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