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BREAKING NEWS!!! Rightmove +3.1%: Crash Over, Ghouls Routed And Capitualating

The Great House Price Crash that never was continues unabated at a modest 'crash cruise speed' of +3.1%. At this speed houses will become affordable to the ghouls in 2110. Only another 100+ years to wait and keep paying down your landlords mortgage.
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  • poppycod
    poppycod Posts: 1,400 Forumite
    The Great House Price Crash that never was continues unabated at a modest 'crash cruise speed' of +3.1%. At this speed houses will become affordable to the ghouls in 2110. Only another 100+ years to wait and keep paying down your landlords mortgage.

    crawl back from whence you came.

    You blight this forum with your continual self-serving propaganda and nasty !!!!!ing.
  • The Great House Price Crash that never was continues unabated at a modest 'crash cruise speed' of +3.1%. At this speed houses will become affordable to the ghouls in 2110. Only another 100+ years to wait and keep paying down your landlords mortgage.

    You're mental.

    But I :rotfl: because the bears do deserve it after the halifax last month. :D
    “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.”

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  • poppycod wrote: »
    You blight this forum with your continual self-serving propaganda and nasty !!!!!ing.

    You've just described yourself.

    And all the other bear sockpuppets.
    “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”
  • Henry_P_Chester
    Henry_P_Chester Posts: 451 Forumite
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    edited 18 October 2010 at 6:40AM
    Lol. Expect lots more 'why won't my house sell' threads on the buying and selling forum. 'the price is right cos the estate agent said so innit!'

    Can't say I'm surprised, or bothered by this as miles says 'this will just mean they won't sell and end up accepting an even lower price than if the they priced realistically in the first place'


    Read the report. Very very bearish. Also as I've said before, even when this index is falling, it's highly erratic and pretty much meaningless with little effect on sale prices. Even Hamish agrees with that.
    Debt Is Slavery.
  • Spiv_2
    Spiv_2 Posts: 280 Forumite
    Property asking prices in England and Wales rose for the first time in four months in October, with sellers responding to seasonal pressures instead of market fundamentals, a survey showed Monday. Property website Rightmove, which says it captures 90 percent of all homes for sale, said asking prices jumped 3.1 percent this month, following drops of 1.1 percent in September and 1.7 percent in August.
    The annual rate of growth in prices rose 2.9 percent from 2.6 percent in September.

    http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=reutersnews&articleid=TRE69G1T9&feed=Bus&action=article
    London home sellers raised asking prices by the most in six months in October as owners across the U.K. brushed off the challenges posed by the biggest fiscal squeeze since World War II, Rightmove Plc said. Average asking prices in the capital increased 5 percent from September to 418,778 pounds ($671,301), the most since February, the operator of Britain’s biggest property website said in a report published in London today. Across the U.K., prices rose 3.1 percent to 236,849 pounds.

    http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahYI4Ox9Ga6Q
  • Blacklight
    Blacklight Posts: 1,565 Forumite
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    It's a useless measure but what's interesting about it is that you never hear anecdotals from property bee users when asking prices have gone up. Just the odd one that's been reduced.
  • Heyman_2
    Heyman_2 Posts: 1,819 Forumite
    Rising asking prices mean nothing ;)
  • Heyman wrote: »
    Rising asking prices mean nothing ;)

    As yes it meas nothing as we are in the 'fear phase'. Why not post that silly little graph so you can all pat each other on the back how wrong for YEARS AND YEARS you've CONSISTENTLY called it.
  • doire_2
    doire_2 Posts: 2,280 Forumite
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    Asking prices? :rotfl:
  • System
    System Posts: 178,376 Community Admin
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    It's a useless measure but what's interesting about it is that you never hear anecdotals from property bee users when asking prices have gone up. Just the odd one that's been reduced.

    I think that's because when a house is listed it very rarely increases in asking price, whereas asking prices get knocked down even during boom times.
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