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House prices rise as property shortage persists

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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Rightmove suggests they are falling. I don't think you get it. Hamish told us all, so obviously this has more weight than any of your factors.

    oh Graham why do you do this to yourself... do you always fail to understand things on purpose? :rolleyes:

    Rightmove report asking prices.

    the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report valuations on property
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report valuations on property

    And they are so much different to asking prices. :rolleyes:
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    And they are so much different to asking prices. :rolleyes:

    they probably are - the difference being from a year ago is that survey prices are closer to asking prices now...
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    they probably are - the difference being from a year ago is that survey prices are closer to asking prices now...

    So you are agreeing, and I have hardly failed to understand anything. I didn't think you got it.

    Good. Glad we got tht one sorted.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 15 December 2009 at 4:26PM
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    So you are agreeing, and I have hardly failed to understand anything. I didn't think you got it.

    Good. Glad we got tht one sorted.

    no Devon that was a bit of a poor attempt at you trying to make out that understand something by putting in a dig at Hamish - off you go back to DT...
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    honeypopper wrote: »
    According to you and the other Grim Reapers they differ by about 60%.:rotfl:

    Why do all these bulls have to use animated icons in all their posts?!
  • pickledpink
    pickledpink Posts: 763 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    no Devon that was a bit of a poor attempt at you trying to make out that understand something by putting in a dig at Hamish - off you go back to DT...


    Who's DT? I've worked out DH, DS, and DD, but can't work out what the T stands for! All sorts of wicked thoughts are going through my mind.........:eek:
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    pickledpink wrote: »
    Who's DT? I've worked out DH, DS, and DD, but can't work out what the T stands for! All sorts of wicked thoughts are going through my mind.........:eek:

    i hope not - this is Graham you're talking about. just think Ronnie Corbett for what he looks like...

    DT = Discussion Time
  • pickledpink
    pickledpink Posts: 763 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Why do all these bulls have to use animated icons in all their posts?!


    Do animated icons upset you, Graham?:dance:

    Aaw bless his cotton socks!:whistle:
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    And they are so much different to asking prices. :rolleyes:

    Actually......

    asking_price_being_achi1109.gif

    A good illustration of why asking prices can fall, yet selling prices still rise.
    “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”
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