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Argg even as a bear i understood house prices could rise and fall...
its amasing reading this forum as peoples 'die hard' attitude is amasing. You have either uber-bears or uber-bulls nothing in between. is it simply a case that people are that desperate for prices to rise/stay the same or to fall outright (so they can buy a house) that they become biased?
Or is it we just have an extreme lot of individuals here.
Am tired of reading complete whingey posts and personal attacks on people, this forums full of sock puppets (alternate usernames) and idiots in general.
House prices will fall and rise... someday. its inevitable. Whether through demand or inflation/delation these changes will occur. Stagnation may also occur.
I've been on this forum for a few years and its sad to see the same individuals or new ones crop up with the same delusions. Houses cost money, they may fall but its always going to be tough, always goign to cost money.
To get a house your require determination and saving. not some divine intervention (house price crash). And to prepare for your retirement you need to save and invest (be it in houses or not).. just remember your investments may go downa as well as up.
One blaringly obvious observation thats missed by people is that because of this period of low interest rates people have enjoyed a a great time to repay their mortgages, staving off negative equity and cutting down the number of repossessions... in essence the government supported the housing market. As the time turns from months to years those people start getting back into comfortable levels, they won't need to move they will own their own home and those waiting will be let down having paid off the mortgages of their BTL masters. In the end they will get more bitter.
If you are going to buy a house then sure wait for house prices to crash but be damn sure and ready to buy when they do because time goes by and from start ti finish you will hjave spent half a decade to a decade waiting to just buy? a quarter of your working life. Its a shame thats all.
Maybe im just lucky enough to be able to afford my current house, or maybe its i spent 3 years saving like a mad man to get a 33% deposit??? God helps those who help themselves.
Hope you all get what you want at this merry period, but just remember waiting forever for something might not always be the wisest thing.
its amasing reading this forum as peoples 'die hard' attitude is amasing. You have either uber-bears or uber-bulls nothing in between. is it simply a case that people are that desperate for prices to rise/stay the same or to fall outright (so they can buy a house) that they become biased?
Or is it we just have an extreme lot of individuals here.
Am tired of reading complete whingey posts and personal attacks on people, this forums full of sock puppets (alternate usernames) and idiots in general.
House prices will fall and rise... someday. its inevitable. Whether through demand or inflation/delation these changes will occur. Stagnation may also occur.
I've been on this forum for a few years and its sad to see the same individuals or new ones crop up with the same delusions. Houses cost money, they may fall but its always going to be tough, always goign to cost money.
To get a house your require determination and saving. not some divine intervention (house price crash). And to prepare for your retirement you need to save and invest (be it in houses or not).. just remember your investments may go downa as well as up.
One blaringly obvious observation thats missed by people is that because of this period of low interest rates people have enjoyed a a great time to repay their mortgages, staving off negative equity and cutting down the number of repossessions... in essence the government supported the housing market. As the time turns from months to years those people start getting back into comfortable levels, they won't need to move they will own their own home and those waiting will be let down having paid off the mortgages of their BTL masters. In the end they will get more bitter.
If you are going to buy a house then sure wait for house prices to crash but be damn sure and ready to buy when they do because time goes by and from start ti finish you will hjave spent half a decade to a decade waiting to just buy? a quarter of your working life. Its a shame thats all.
Maybe im just lucky enough to be able to afford my current house, or maybe its i spent 3 years saving like a mad man to get a 33% deposit??? God helps those who help themselves.
Hope you all get what you want at this merry period, but just remember waiting forever for something might not always be the wisest thing.
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Graham_Devon wrote: »Thought you may join in creating them?
Increasing your 32,000+ post count?
Touche eh?0 -
Am tired of reading complete whingey posts and personal attacks on people, this forums full of sock puppets (alternate usernames) and idiots in general.
I've only recently starting looking around in here and am amazed at how market noise seems to drive people in to a frenzy.
That said I'm strangely drawn - it's a bit like an online Jeremy Kyle show.
What did you say? House prices up/ down by 0.1% and you're still renting/ buying/ living in a hole with silver coins - get off my stage!0 -
I think there's only poster that considers 0.1% to be a fall. Most humans see it as stagnation (or flatness).0
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I've only recently starting looking around in here and am amazed at how market noise seems to drive people in to a frenzy.
That said I'm strangely drawn - it's a bit like an online Jeremy Kyle show.
What did you say? House prices up/ down by 0.1% and you're still renting/ buying/ living in a hole with silver coins - get off my stage!
Exactly, its like that 0.1% fall has literally meant someone coming home getting the gun out of the cabinenet and unloading a few shells....
Seriously most people dont give a monkeys, they only care about house prices when they want to buy/sell.0 -
Amazing is spelt with a Z.0
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What has that got to do with the subject if this thread?THE_GHOULISH_CODPIECE wrote: »Amazing is spelt with a Z.
You must be very bored spending your time looking for spelling errors:D0 -
Blacklight wrote: »I think there's only poster that considers 0.1% to be a fall. Most humans see it as stagnation (or flatness).
Statisticians see it as a rounding difference, arbitrageurs as a profit opportunity, athletes as the difference between gold and silver and Michael Beer sees it as 0.1% more than the number of wickets he'll take in the next Test.0 -
markharding557 wrote: »What has that got to do with the subject if this thread?
You must be very bored spending your time looking for spelling errors
The same error twice in the same sentence makes the OP look a bit .......uhm.....uneducated?In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
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