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Are we already in a new major upswing?

More and more regions and cities are hitting double digit inflation. I suggested last year that we're in another boom, and with London, South West and South East all since experiencing massive rises, it's certainly beginning to feel like it.
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  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    No, we aren't but the drugs are clearly working for you.
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Cleary not. All the lattest data has shown a massive slow down, stabalisation and falls in price over the last couple of months.

    Yes there are some top end purchases in London from Greeks and Russians distorting that market based on such low transaction levels.

    What is important to remember is economic fundamentals prevent big rises and funding is set to get far more restrictive as the year goes on.
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  • Dirk_Rambo
    Dirk_Rambo Posts: 387 Forumite
    House prices are still falling round my way, that much I do know.
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    I spent a lot of time in November looking on Rightmove. I looked again a few weeks ago and it was mainly the same stock. Prices were being lowered.
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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    I spent a lot of time in November looking on Rightmove. I looked again a few weeks ago and it was mainly the same stock. Prices were being lowered.


    Your signature is apt "oh dear"

    Asking prices is not the same as selling prices.

    If a house was sold for £100k last year and marketed this year at £130k, then lowered to £125k, then lowered to £120k before selling at £115k

    Has that house lowered in value or increased?
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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Dirk_Rambo wrote: »
    House prices are still falling round my way, that much I do know.

    Interesting.
    Local areas can react much differently to the overall UK average.
    Care to share your locality so that we can discuss in more detail?
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  • Turnbull2000
    Turnbull2000 Posts: 1,807 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Cleary not. All the lattest data has shown a massive slow down, stabalisation and falls in price over the last couple of months.

    Yes there are some top end purchases in London from Greeks and Russians distorting that market based on such low transaction levels.

    What is important to remember is economic fundamentals prevent big rises and funding is set to get far more restrictive as the year goes on.

    Just like the economic fundamentals that drove the 2002-2007 upswing? Oh hang on...
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  • Turnbull2000
    Turnbull2000 Posts: 1,807 Forumite
    nembot wrote: »
    No, we aren't but the drugs are clearly working for you.

    The price data says otherwise.
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  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    I'll just add a boom would be classed as 1% or more rises, per month over at least 6 months - in the same way a crash is defined as drops of similar levels.

    If we were in a boom, this months figures just killed it's boomingness -better luck in December as the next realistically timed "boom" opportunity.

    For me, during the last twelve months in the local borough (not town) we've seen six monthly drops, four in the last six months.

    Not so much boom, more akin to plop type sound...

    Amazing how averages are so misleading eh?
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    The price data says otherwise.



    Latest land registry data suggests otherwise. A below inflation rise incase you missed it.
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