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House prices

Here is an opportunity for bulls and bears to voice their opinions

Do you think the coming crash will take house prices back to the 1980s 129 votes

Yes
26% 34 votes
No
73% 95 votes
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Comments

  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    there's a question i've always wanted to ask you macaque - have you ever seen a panther that is pink?
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Objection Mlud, the monkey is leading the witness icon7.gif like have you stopped stopped beating your wife - Yes or No: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
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Wheres the option for .......

    c) You had your crash, game over.
    “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”
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Equivalent today after inflation etc to the 80's? Dunno, maybe.

    Same price as somewhere in the 80's? No.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Equivalent today after inflation etc to the 80's? Dunno, maybe.

    Same price as somewhere in the 80's? No.

    I agree. Only if there is an unprecedented and vicious deflation can this happen.
  • FATBALLZ
    FATBALLZ Posts: 5,146 Forumite
    They will probably bottom out at about £130k average price. Inflation adjusted.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Can it be in A Delorean by a mad professor
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    eh? 10 - 18 ??? Who got the sockies out? :D
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Mr.Brown_4
    Mr.Brown_4 Posts: 1,109 Forumite
    sjaypink wrote: »
    eh? 10 - 18 ??? Who got the sockies out? :D
    I haven't even voted, so not the one who's over egging... scrub that.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    _pale_

    I like the capri image so much better :D
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

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