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MSE News: Nationwide: strong house price growth in January
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Mr fish, I didn't mean to direct that AT you... just at the thread... for the record... :-)Plan
1) Get most competitive Lifetime Mortgage (Done)
2) Make healthy savings, spend wisely (Doing)
3) Ensure healthy pension fund - (Doing)
4) Ensure house is nice, suitable, safe, and located - (Done)
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Interesting times and figures. Would like to see the seasonal adjustment.:exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.
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Interesting times and figures. Would like to see the seasonal adjustment.
It's not particularly relevant, as the full year SA and non SA figures must match.“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”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »It's not particularly relevant, as the full year SA and non SA figures must match.
LOL!
Halifax SA doesnt work like that, they can take from previous months to readjust the current. Ie it's all made up.0 -
Get me the data they base it on and I would/will!inspector_monkfish wrote: »Final proof that all the numbers are fudged and clearly made up.Plan
1) Get most competitive Lifetime Mortgage (Done)
2) Make healthy savings, spend wisely (Doing)
3) Ensure healthy pension fund - (Doing)
4) Ensure house is nice, suitable, safe, and located - (Done)
5) Keep everyone happy, healthy and entertained (Done, Doing, Going to do)0 -
LOL!
Halifax SA doesnt work like that, they can take from previous months to readjust the current. Ie it's all made up.
LOL!
This is Nationwide.
And both indices must match at the end of the year.“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”0 -
Who's going to be apologising to Hamish in his "double digit HPI ahead" thread if this happens then?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2114467
Rough maths, a 0.8% drop will still lead to double figure YoY figure.
:beer:
Double digit HPI since trough is here now......
+ 10.6% national,
+ 19.7% Aberdeen.“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”0 -
LOL!
Halifax SA doesnt work like that, they can take from previous months to readjust the current. Ie it's all made up.
But, but...
You seemed to be more than happy to quote the Halifax figures as gospel when house prices were falling:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=619975&highlight=
Very strange turn around now that they are climbing! Or is it the case that only negative figures are correct?
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »:beer:
Double digit HPI since trough is here now......
+ 10.6% national,
+ 19.7% Aberdeen.
Where are you getting 10.6 from?
Edit Oh I see, that's cheating!This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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