EXPRESS- House prices to SOAR 21%

Graham_Devon

Bulls still post on HPC. I see their responses when I have a look.

It's just the loony tunes they banned. Evident by the fact they are now here.

Pimperne1

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Bulls still post on HPC. I see their responses when I have a look.

It's just the loony tunes they banned. Evident by the fact they are now here.

They are allowed to post now but there was a period between 2008/9 where most bulls were ejected. Now I expect they see that having informed debate is better than only one view being expressed (those who having followed that view having had their fingers burned).

Conrad

treliac wrote: »

So how are all these people, who currently aren't receiving pay rises, have stopped spending on the high street and are frantically worried about their job security, going to suddenly start buying up houses like there's no tomorrow?

Not syaing your wrong, but be careful when extrapolating based on current trends. The future does not run on rails.

In the 1970's some key influencial books and theories were writen where most expert consensus agreed. One of these was Famine 1975, a best seller which used the current trends to predict mass famine in the US by 1975.

Now you may well fall into the almost inevitable mode of laughing at this, and this behavior is exactly what Pyschologists predict. People in hindsight tend to dismiss failed predictions as quaint and innofensive, yet beforehand great swathes of experts and the public held these predictions to be of profound importance.

So at the moment simply extending the trend lines and using this to predict the future willk almost certainly fail.

Famine 1975 did not take into account the green revolution, indeed the theorists again and again dismissed it as a side show. This is the problem with predicting. That little sideshow, that little bend in the road is what determines a whole different outcome, as you will find out.

Same with Y2K. A lone Cambridge professor was telling everyone the impact would be easy to fix and have minimal impact, but he was dismissed as a little sideshow and trillions were over spent as a result of the fear predictions holding sway. In the event he was right. 3 nations did take his approach, they were S Korea, Italy and Russia. They spent a tiny amount on Y2K measures and took his minimal approach. Nothing went bady wrong for those 3 and it made a lughing stock of the rest of the world.

Always be on the look out for those bends in the road. Don't follow the trendlines or the tramlines.

Batchy

The fact is, one of a familys most important features of functioning, is a home.

A disfunctional family, will generally have a social home possibly, so their problem is solved.

A functional family, will in most cases have already brought and where possibly will do anything to keep employed to keep in it, doing whatever it takes.

anyone else who wants a house, should train and earn more... simples.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Bulls still post on HPC..

Really?

Link to one.

Sibley

It's just the loony tunes they banned. Evident by the fact they are now here.

What you mean ones like me?

You know who said right at the start that house prices would never crash.

Also said the government and homeowners would never allow them to crash as well.

Yeah what a bunch of loonies. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Quick bulls pile in. They have opened the comments section for last knockings.

I've hit them with this.

HPC Gang

Sold to rent, disenchanted renters, nutters with chips on their shoulders, socially challenged, lazy, jealous of success, no ambition, priced out bingo callers,

You boys have taken a hell of a beating this month. Hahaha!!!!

bendix

Sibley wrote: »

What has cracked me up is the HPC response to the Express no allowing any comments today.
They are spitting feathers. :rotfl:

Deal with it.

You stopped bulls allowing comments on your website a long time ago.

Now you know how it feels.
All those homeowners reading the story and feeling all smug.

Nobody around to give them the true facts eh? :rotfl:

If I was pinning my retirement on overexposure to a single asset which, by your own admission is going to increase by less than the rate of inflation over the next decade (30% in ten years, did you say hopefully), I wouldn't be feeling too smug either Sibley.

mr_fishbulb

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

We've been telling you this would happen.

That what would happen? That The Express would write an article saying house prices will go up?

Oooooh you Nostradamus you