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Would you sell me your house for 50% of its current valuation?

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  • Dirk_Rambo
    Dirk_Rambo Posts: 387 Forumite
    Sibley wrote: »
    I had my investment house valued in 2007 at £90,000.
    There is no way on earth I would take 1 pence under that. I want 90k to spend. Not 80k or 70k.

    Prices wont go down but if they were to dip then I'd know to hold on until they went back up. Next two years is a bad time to sell so best leave it rented out. No sweat whatever.

    I wouldn't let my house go cheap. To be honest it will probably be selling for around £225,00 by the time I want to sell it in 5 years time.
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  • Orpheo
    Orpheo Posts: 1,058 Forumite
    Sibley wrote: »
    I had my investment house valued in 2007 at £90,000.
    There is no way on earth I would take 1 pence under that. I want 90k to spend. Not 80k or 70k.

    Prices wont go down but if they were to dip then I'd know to hold on until they went back up. Next two years is a bad time to sell so best leave it rented out. No sweat whatever.

    I wouldn't let my house go cheap. To be honest it will probably be selling for around £225,00 by the time I want to sell it in 5 years time.

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  • Emy1501
    Emy1501 Posts: 1,798 Forumite
    Yes no problem if all other house were woth 50% less.
  • Blacklight
    Blacklight Posts: 1,565 Forumite
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    Emy1501 wrote: »
    Yes no problem if all other house were woth 50% less.

    Yes but they all will be according to the experts, particularly the moneyweek ones.

    Surely anyone with any confidence in their forecast that the market will be 50% down by 2011 (HPC forecast) would take advantage of this fantastic offer?

    Or perhaps they don't really have any faith their own predictions...
  • Dan:_4
    Dan:_4 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    The_Slayer wrote: »
    If you'd seen sibleys post on HPC you would know he makes Hamish look bearish, so don't expect any different here. He's harmless but lives considerably higher up the tree
    than the cuckoo in cloud land

    I guess hes the other end of the scale to Brit. At least most of us are somewhere in the middle.
  • Blacklight
    Blacklight Posts: 1,565 Forumite
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    The_Slayer wrote: »
    If you'd seen sibleys post on HPC you would know he makes Hamish look bearish, so don't expect any different here. He's harmless but lives considerably higher up the tree
    than the cuckoo in cloud land

    Perhaps, but to be fair I do recall he did have a 100% success rate with predicting the future, which is 100% more than everyone else on HPC.

    No doubt the reason they banned him.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Is this Sibley the same sibley as I see on newspaper comments sections, getting slated by all and sundry?
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  • Thrugelmir
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    Perhaps, but to be fair I do recall he did have a 100% success rate with predicting the future, which is 100% more than everyone else on HPC.

    No doubt the reason they banned him.

    Past tense. Hindsight is a wonderful gift that God bestowed upon anyone wishing to make a particular point of view.

    More likely he upset the bosses at Capital Economics and they complained .........
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    There's a number of people who state that falling property prices are a good thing and that it's inevitable that values will fall off a cliff any time now.

    I'm just curious whether you would be prepared to sell me your current property at 2011 prices now?

    I would.

    Ok, strictly speaking it's not my house but I'll give you a decent chip off the asking price for cash.
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