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Sellers urged to lower expectations as market stalls

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  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    Tosh. They are only to happy to ramp prices when volumes are high and times are good.

    This simply isn't one of those times.

    Says someone who has never actually bought a house.
  • peakoil_2
    peakoil_2 Posts: 206 Forumite
    Pimperne1 wrote: »
    Says someone who has never actually bought a house.

    oh, one of those experts on every subject but without any experience. A theoretician?
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    peakoil wrote: »
    oh, one of those experts on every subject but without any experience. A theoretician?

    To be fair to him I think he only professes to be an expert on the housing market (and to be fair, if you had been a member of a housepricecrash website for nearly six years, you would at least know the lingo if not the mechanics of how to buy a property).
  • peakoil_2
    peakoil_2 Posts: 206 Forumite
    Pimperne1 wrote: »
    To be fair to him I think he only professes to be an expert on the housing market (and to be fair, if you had been a member of a housepricecrash website for nearly six years, you would at least know the lingo if not the mechanics of how to buy a property).

    I dont understand, if he has been waiting that long for a crash, then why didn't he buy when the crash finally happened in 2007/2008? If I had had the money in place then I would have bought in 2008 after such a steep fall.
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    peakoil wrote: »
    I dont understand, if he has been waiting that long for a crash, then why didn't he buy when the crash finally happened in 2007/2008? If I had had the money in place then I would have bought in 2008 after such a steep fall.

    I think the assumption is that there are bigger falls to come (and if there aren't then it will only because the government intervened). Further, if he had bought, he wouldn't be able to say "Welcome to the world the bulls made" (whatever that means, as if people buying a house actually brought the world economy to its knees).
  • seanm99
    seanm99 Posts: 9 Forumite
    peakoil wrote: »
    I drive too close on a motorway if someone is hogging either of the outside lanes and making no attempt to overtake.

    Which makes you even worse a driver than they are.
  • peakoil_2
    peakoil_2 Posts: 206 Forumite
    seanm99 wrote: »
    Which makes you even worse a driver than they are.

    I know. I'm history's greatest monster.
  • J_i_m
    J_i_m Posts: 1,342 Forumite
    Off topic:

    I think everyone is a worse driver than they think they are, everyone from time to time speeds or follows too closely, or pulls off stupid or careless manoeuvres. Yes, myself included.
    :www: Progress Report :www:
    Offer accepted: £107'000
    Deposit: £23'000
    Mortgage approved for: £84'000
    Exchanged: 2/3/16
    :T ... complete on 9/3/16 ... :T
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    J_i_m wrote: »
    Off topic:

    I think everyone is a worse driver than they think they are, everyone from time to time speeds or follows too closely, or pulls off stupid or careless manoeuvres. Yes, myself included.

    Define "Everyone".

    I've got recognised on more than one occasion for my driving, AND been awarded points for it!

    So I do think, having had my driving skills recognised, I can boast a little more than others :)
  • peakoil_2
    peakoil_2 Posts: 206 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Define "Everyone".

    I've got recognised on more than one occasion for my driving, AND been awarded points for it!

    So I do think, having had my driving skills recognised, I can boast a little more than others :)

    what is it with people having to boast about themselves to strangers on this website?

    first we have wasted energy on outside pools and now we have britains greatest driver.
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