Evaporating bulls

Graham_Devon

Cleaver wrote: »

Ad, you know I like you a lot, but you did spend a good couple of years telling people it was the worst time possible to buy a house, then went quiet for a bit before popping back to mention that you'd bought a house!

On my mental list of people who I had never buying a house in their lifetime only Brit was below you (if that man ever buys a property I'll eat my trousers). From memory when you came back and said you'd bought I reacted in the same way I would have if the Pope had logged on to cathlicsrus.com's forum to annouce that he was a bit fed up with all this Catholicism and was becoming a Buddhist.

To be fair, while saying all that, he also said if he finds a house that suits all the needs, he will buy, knowing full well it will drop in value as he had been saving up for ages.

geneer

macaque wrote: »

Bulls have been drifting away from this forum in recent weeks. The defence from the remaining stragglers is half hearted at best.

It must be difficult to defend a flat earth theory when people keep handing you satellite photographs.

geneer

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

It's just that the Scottish bull contingent have only now recovered from the hangover..... after that celebration party all summer as prices reached several new peaks on the ROS monthly, quarterly, weekly and the SPC and Lloyds indices.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


28 day rolling ROS figures as of 29th nov.
Aberdeen City £182,376 £190,081 -£7,705 -4.1%
Edinburgh, City of £209,773 £219,848 -£10,075 -4.6%
Scotland £158,097 £159,951 -£1,854 -1.2%

Blacklight

There's nothing to talk about any more. Hasn't been for months.

Recession was two years ago. House prices didn't crash and there's nothing now that will cause a fall.

Prices will stagnate, fall in real terms. People will buy, prices will pick up again in time. Same as ever.

It's all over. Has been for ages.

Graham_Devon

Blacklight wrote: »

There's nothing to talk about any more. Hasn't been for months.

Recession was two years ago. House prices didn't crash and there's nothing now that will cause a fall.

Prices will stagnate,fall in real terms.People will buy, prices will pick up again in time. Same as ever.

It's all over. Has been for ages.

Nothing to cause a fall?

Blimey.

Nothing at all?

geneer

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Nothing to cause a fall?

Blimey.

Nothing at all?

Of course "real" falls no longer count for housing bulls.

Despite the majority of whats officially know as the last "Housing Crash" being in "real" rather than "nominal" terms.

At least as far as the "average" asking price goes.
But as we know "average UK prices" don't help those in those areas hit particularly hard by the correction.

Percy1983

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

And lets not forget, the biggest generation in history, bigger than the boomers, will start reaching FTB age in 2012, and surge all the way through until 2020.

You'd have to be an idiot not to see whats coming next.....

Civil war as a whole generation can't afford something as basic as shelter?

System

Percy1983 wrote: »

Civil war as a whole generation can't afford something as basic as shelter?

You'd fit in a lot better at HPC with posts like this

Graham_Devon

geneer wrote: »

Of course "real" falls no longer count for housing bulls.

Despite the majority of whats officially know as the last "Housing Crash" being in "real" rather than "nominal" terms.

You noticed a trend?

I noticed another one. Stagnation appears to be anything between -10% and 0%. So it's difficult for falls to actually be mentioned.

Rises, on the other hand, are anything above +0.01%.

Blacklight

Graham_Devon wrote: »

You noticed a trend?

I noticed another one. Stagnation appears to be anything between -10% and 0%. So it's difficult for falls to actually be mentioned.

Rises, on the other hand, are anything above +0.01%.

See, it's all so slow and uninteresting even Graham has to try and bait people into an argument.

Halifax was +1.8% last month. FYI that's 1.79% more than 0.01%.