UK House Prices Will Hit "All Time High" by 2015

southantrim3

I had to laugh at this one today....

SuperBOB

They do admit to it being below inflation at least

Joe_Bloggs

1 Hyde Park Lane may boost the house price statistics in the local area.
The 6 million 1 bed flat seems a little excessive.
J_B.

geneer

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

For a real "Oh dear" moment, you need to look at the 'predictions' of Moneyweek or Capital Economics.




Better by far than any of the housing bears.

Of course you reckon Ray Boulger, famed Bullish pundit who said in september 2007 "house prices are unlikely to fall", is a regular mystic meg.
So we will have to take your opinions with a pinch of salt.

Loughton_Monkey

Does anyone know what sort of salary this Daily Mail so-called 'journalist' is on?

Becky Barrow is her name. Right-click her name and get all her so-called 'articles' for Daily Mail and although quite 'productive', all we get is regurgitated press releases from all and sundry. Is this 'journalism'? At least it doesn't involve hacking phones or paying the police for information, but surely one wants an ounce of 'creativity' before shelling out 55 pence for this organ?

It occurs to me that there are lots of people - including many on this forum [I'm sure geneer might agree] - who simply regurgitate any old drivel they can read already, and regurgitate it in the name of 'news'. The difference is that people here do it for free, while 'Becky' is presumably on quite a nice 'package'!

I can only come to two conclusions. Either 'Becky' should not be paid a penny for this drivel, or geneer should receive £80K basic, plus expenses, plus generous pension for his voluminous posts.

Shall I start the 'geneer subscriptions' so we can pay him, or are there other volunteers?

Joe_Bloggs

@Loughton Monkey
The way to cash in to to have an economic think tank. With this you can get the press to subscribe to reports. They obviously pay more for quoting huge chunks hence it would be wise to incorporate startling headlines.

No two think tanks are allowed to agree hence it pays to contradict everyone else and be controversial.

The result is a different headline everyday to serve up to the readership, filling the space between the adverts.

J_B.

Loughton_Monkey

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

@Loughton Monkey
The way to cash in to to have an economic think tank.....

.. but read my post again. I was talking about geneer. Is there such a thing as an 'economic can't think tank'?

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

No two think tanks are allowed to agree hence it pays to contradict everyone else and be controversial.

Here, I violently disagree with you, and every single poster on this thread except myself. And I also know that the world is flat.

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

The result is a different headline everyday to serve up to the readership, filling the space between the adverts.

.... the irony being that most often, the adverts are more truthful, are more informative than the articles, and cost a lot more to produce.

vax2002

With net immigration increasing and house building falling, well you do the maths

nollag2006

doire wrote: »

Oh dear its the CEBR again with another of their predictions. They haven't got the best prediction record have they

Probably a lot better than Jonny Davies though

sabretoothtigger

abaxas wrote: »

Epic timing. Rome is burning and they put out this.

Rome burning would reduce housing stock available which would lead to price rises



House prices can very easily reach new highs but if you examine it as a ratio to cost of renting or average wages it might be they fall to new lows

Better to look at ratios I think, in terms of cost of available finance house prices are extremely cheap ?