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Rightmove April +1.7%

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Chucky's right, there are lots of great flats with nice neighbours and very little noise.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Jojo1daffy
    Jojo1daffy Posts: 210 Forumite
    Isn't the 'up 1.7%' just something that estate agents have fabricated? The perception being it's house buying season so let's make out like there's a rush on and that house prices are rising so you better be quick..! The reality being that those buyers that are lucky enough to be given a mortgage come in then and buy for 10% under the asking price....?
  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    Jojo1daffy wrote: »
    Isn't the 'up 1.7%' just something that estate agents have fabricated? The perception being it's house buying season so let's make out like there's a rush on and that house prices are rising so you better be quick..! The reality being that those buyers that are lucky enough to be given a mortgage come in then and buy for 10% under the asking price....?

    Surely not. There's a shortage of property, vendors and buyers know this, so vendors would be foolish to try and negotiate a discount, knowing that there'll be someone right behind them waiting to offer asking price+.

    Probably.
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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Chucky's right, there are lots of great flats with nice neighbours and very little noise.

    In The Barbican you have loads of neighbours and hardly any noise. I get more road noise from my quiet street in a quiet suburb than I did there and you could rarely hear any noise from other flats.
  • I've lived in the flat we're shortly leaving for 12 years, and never heard a peep out of our neighbours either upstairs or downstairs. Either they've all been silent as the grave, or the soundproofing's pretty good (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • sleepyj
    sleepyj Posts: 108 Forumite
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    Hamish if all the houses on my street sold for 350k and I put mine on for 400K would you get excited?
  • FTBFun wrote: »
    I see what you are saying - living in flats = scum. Best shoot everyone who does.

    Oh what a drama queen you are.
  • Communal living = designed for letting = inconsiderate neighbours.

    That's what I was answering!

    I've lived in some great flats, I still own 3 of them, nothing wrong with flats, you can't make sweeping generalisations like that.

    I can if it's what I've experienced. Besides, you've got a vested interest to say the opposite.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    Oh what a drama queen you are.

    Bit rich coming from the quite astonishing generalisation you've made there.
  • DexterA
    DexterA Posts: 166 Forumite
    jojo1daffy wrote: »
    isn't the 'up 1.7%' just something that estate agents have fabricated? The perception being it's house buying season so let's make out like there's a rush on and that house prices are rising so you better be quick..! The reality being that those buyers that are lucky enough to be given a mortgage come in then and buy for 10% under the asking price....?

    a PPR. ----
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