Offers over is over for house prices in Scotland.

geneer

lucylucky wrote: »

Lazy journalism is common-place.

Shame you have adopted the practice.

Have you not got some posts to spell check lucy?

lucylucky

geneer wrote: »

Have you not got some posts to spell check lucy?

No need to be shy, or bitter - feel free to admit your mistake.

The offers over system is not dead and buried, it is alive and well and functioning.

Do not believe what you read in a badly constructed newspaper story.

doire_2

Rinoa wrote: »

Either way Edinburgh house prices are up another £2000 in March according to ESPC.

Another nail in the coffin for some.
:beer:

FTB's? Thats reason to have a celebrating smiley? And to think after all the posts Hamish makes about the plight of FTB's he thanked your post.

geneer

lucylucky wrote: »

No need to be shy, or bitter - feel free to admit your mistake.

The offers over system is not dead and buried, it is alive and well and functioning.

Do not believe what you read in a badly constructed newspaper story.

Actually I believe the mistake is yours.

Technically you could be correct. If you were referring to a technical report, or PHD thesis or other such formal technical document.

However, in context, you are referring to an informal header or introduction to a related article. These can and generally do include allusions, metaphors, puns, and colloquialisms etc, all of which become clear when reading with the article itself. And read with the article, the meaning is indeed clear.

So in a technical sense, your assessment is completely wrong.

But thanks for the tedium of your withering pedantry. It really has been incredibly pointless. :T

JonnyBravo

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Time for the seasonal airing of.......

The Downfall of geneer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCcNUgg9IPM&feature=player_embedded

Oh ok.

It all becomes clear now, ie. geneer's obsession with you and Scottish house prices.
It's been going on for years and you used to dish out a lot of stick to him. He now dishes it back. He's investing countless hours trying to counter your countless hours of internet posting.
Neither can back down.
Everything you say is wrong and only lots of posts can prove this beyond doubt.

Fantastic stuff.

geneer

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Oh ok.
It all becomes clear now, ie. geneer's obsession with you and Scottish house prices.

You are not of course suggesting that a lovingly created yet flawed and backfiring video "parody" created for me, by the bulls, is indicative of my obsession. :rotfl:

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Oh ok.

It's been going on for years and you used to dish out a lot of stick to him. He now dishes it back. He's investing countless hours trying to counter your countless hours of internet posting.
Neither can back down.
Everything you say is wrong and only lots of posts can prove this beyond doubt.

Fantastic stuff.

Actually, thats not far from the truth.
If you can factor in that theres enormous fun to be had in pulling apart spurious arguments.:)

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

geneer wrote: »

theres enormous fun to be had in pulling apart spurious arguments.:)

Like for example, someone joining hpc 5 years ago to moan about how high house prices are and that a crash would make them cheaper.

And house prices today, after a crash, being higher than they were 5 years ago, when said person joined hpc.....

But of course, that's now irrelevant, because the important thing was to see a crash coming and then brag about it on the internet. Not, you know, to be able to actually buy a house cheaper than you could have when you joined hpc....

That kind of spurious argument?

Hey, you're right, this is fun.:D

geneer

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Like for example, someone joining hpc 5 years ago to moan about how high house prices are and that a crash would make them cheaper.

And house prices today, after a crash, being higher than they were 5 years ago, when said person joined hpc.....

But of course, that's now irrelevant, because the important thing was to see a crash coming and then brag about it on the internet. Not, you know, to be able to actually buy a house cheaper than you could have when you joined hpc....

That kind of spurious argument?

Hey, you're right, this is fun.:D

Of course you mean "around £2K higher then they would have been had said person decided to buy when they joined HPC".
Which does rather make most of your post, well a bit embarassing for you really.

Talking of spurious arguments you insinuate that my opinon on the inevitability of the house price crash is meaningless unless it can be demonstrated that I financially benefited from the same.

You also imply that choosing to not buy in the upper regions of an obvious bubble results in some kind of loss. Which is strange, because I've checked my bank balance and no money appears to have dissapeared.

Gotta tell you Hamish, for someone who's appears to be suggesting that academic discussion on the housing market is irrelevant, you do appear to waste a huge amount of time and effort doing the same.

In other words you've adopting one of those hypocritical, frustrated, meaningless, readily discredited, sour grape fall back positions so favoured by the bulls in the wake of the crash they failed to see coming.

In any event, don't please think your dummy spitting tantrum has been missed Hamish. As always, whay you've chosen not to respond on speaks volumes.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

geneer wrote: »

Of course you mean "around £2K higher then they would have been had said person decided to buy when they joined HPC".

Math also not your strong point, I see.

geneer hpc join date Dec 2005.

Edinburgh average house price.....

Dec 2005 --- ROS ---£175,197

Dec 2010 --- ROS ---£215,008

Ooops. A bit more than £2k higher then.....

Now geneer will doubtless be along soon to do the 'squirmy wormy flip flop dance', parading out every excuse under the sun..... that he actually wouldn't have bought in Dec....... and there would have been a lag in the data...... and the data this summer will be skewed upwards because more high prices houses sell...... but this winters data isn't skewed downwards because more lower priced houses sell.......and, and, and...... Waaaaaaahhhhhhh.

"geneers folly".......

It's famous for a reason folks.;)

chucky

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

geneer hpc join date Dec 2005.

Edinburgh average house price.....

Dec 2005 --- ROS ---£175,197

Dec 2010 --- ROS ---£215,008

so not only is he paying £40,000 more if he bought he'd have paid thousands and thousands in rent!!!

i don't think it's not just maths that isn't his strong point...