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Halifax panic as the buyers dry up.

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  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2010 at 1:23PM
    housesitter wrote: »
    House prices probably are going to fall further.
    fair enough. so you'd thought that you'd make a thread up out of nothing then.
    any particular reason?
    housesitter wrote: »
    I've been a long term saver with the idea of getting in when the fall started.
    that would mean you would buy now as house prices are still lower than they were when the falls started.

    are you sure that you've thought this through?
  • Really2
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    [STRIKE]Halifax[/STRIKE]Bears panic as [STRIKE]the buyers[/STRIKE]houses dry up.

    Naughty I know but worth an edit. :)
  • StevieJ
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    Really2 wrote: »
    [STRIKE]Halifax[/STRIKE]Bears panic as [STRIKE]the buyers[/STRIKE]houses dry up.

    Naughty I know but worth an edit. :)

    True, even the bears are buying.

    I'm in the process of buying at what is probably the correct value for teh current market

    However I fully expect over the next couple of years I'll see a drop in it's value.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    Snooze wrote: »
    :rotfl:

    Looks like we've got a winner, boys and girls! :rotfl:

    R


    Yup, a scheme for suckers I'm afraid.

    Wait til he/she comes to sell !!!!!

    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/mortgages-and-homes/article.html?in_article_id=449444&in_page_id=8
    "There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
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  • StevieJ
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    Spartacus_Mills wrote: »
    Yup, a scheme for suckers I'm afraid.

    Wait til he/she comes to sell !!!!!

    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/mortgages-and-homes/article.html?in_article_id=449444&in_page_id=8

    You can see why Dev has his p1ssed off head on all the time :eek:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    You can see why Dev has his p1ssed off head on all the time :eek:

    Has he bought on shared equity :confused:
    "There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
    "I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
    "The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
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  • StevieJ
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    Spartacus_Mills wrote: »
    Has he bought on shared equity :confused:

    Pretty sure so.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Spartacus_Mills wrote: »
    Has he bought on shared equity :confused:


    :rotfl:

    You didn't know?

    Oh yes, he bought shared equity....
    “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”
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    And get this ..........


    McTittish bought at the top of the market.
    Not once, but twice.

    A true housing market expert.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • housesitter
    housesitter Posts: 545 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    fair enough. so you'd thought that you'd make a thread up out of nothing then.
    any particular reason?
    Go on, give us a clue !!!!!! you are talking about.
    that would mean you would buy now as house prices are still lower than they were when the falls started.
    eh?!?
    are you sure that you've thought this through?
    Evidently more so than when you posted, whatever you intended to mean.
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