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House prices could fall for several years

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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Gorgeous_George wrote: »
    Prices could fall... or the could rise... or they could stay the same.

    GG

    The article gives a slightly more reasoned argument than that, George.

    Clearly your point is true, but possibly not worth making.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Turnbull2000 wrote: »
    I haven't bought!

    Well go on then, give us a clue.

    Why the change of heart?
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Radiantsoul wrote: »
    I suspect that no-one is really predicting big rises or falls this year. My guess is prices will be broadly flat, but plus or minus 10% are possible.

    That covers most bases.

    Only the very brave would disagree with you.
  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Capital Economics - Where is Hamish icon7.gif

    Trolling another forum ?
    "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."
    "A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    My what a fun life.
  • jennihen
    jennihen Posts: 6,500 Forumite
    Gorgeous_George wrote: »
    Prices could fall... or the could rise... or they could stay the same.

    GG
    At least we know that for definite!!

    Ftb here but hardly any new listings in my area - I just need a house to live in and I will pay what I can afford.
    One life.
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I certainly think that the election is the important thing. The current party want to hold the illusion until the election.
    Happy chappy
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Turnbull2000 wrote: »
    I haven't bought! Just being realistic. Which is enough to get you a banned on HPC apparently!

    A poster that is objective enough to discuss what will probably happen, rather than what they want to happen, is sure to get banned over there.

    Most of the remaining bears on here, and there, are now just wishful thinkers. The ones with a clue already bought, including hpc mods !!!!!!....

    There is no prospect of the previous lows being breached. The bottom was in Feb 2009, and whatever fluctuations that may occur over the next year or two will still be within the context of an upwards trend.

    The crash is over.

    Nothing left to argue about really.
    “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”
  • Mr.Brown_4
    Mr.Brown_4 Posts: 1,109 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    The crash is over.

    Nothing left to argue about really.
    Well, just the small matter of there still being a crash to come. A market inflated by total madness (loose lending, BTL, people) has yet to get back in touch with reality. And as it approaches the right level it will overshoot on the correction - because that's what happens.

    Few years to go yet Hamish before it's over I reckon.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,371 Community Admin
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    A poster that is objective enough to discuss what will probably happen, rather than what they want to happen, is sure to get banned over there.

    Most of the remaining bears on here, and there, are now just wishful thinkers. The ones with a clue already bought, including hpc mods !!!!!!....

    There is no prospect of the previous lows being breached. The bottom was in Feb 2009, and whatever fluctuations that may occur over the next year or two will still be within the context of an upwards trend.

    The crash is over.

    Nothing left to argue about really.

    Haha, which mod?
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