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Daily Express more desperate than Hamish to prop up falling house prices

brit1234
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Tomorrows Head line, mindless desperate ramping or not?
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  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Tomorrows Head line, mindless desperate ramping or not?

    Not not, is my answer.
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  • Turnbull2000
    Turnbull2000 Posts: 1,807 Forumite
    The Express is just teasing the crash hopefuls now. Good on em :D
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  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    The express prints a plot of nonsense about the same half dozen topics. House prices are one of them.
  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    And 68% doesn't sound that impressive. What's that, about 5% per year ? Not a bad increase, if you are bothered how much your home is worth. I suppose the words "surge" and "rocketed" might make the figure sound better than it is.

    The Daily Express - paper of choice for the wheelchair user, more ramping than any other newspaper.
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  • the_flying_pig
    the_flying_pig Posts: 2,349 Forumite
    edited 26 September 2011 at 10:29PM
    ruggedtoast wrote: »
    The express prints a plot of nonsense about the same half dozen topics. House prices are one of them.

    yeah but why a whole front page on the decade-on-decade trend? there are plenty of other newsworthy things going on in the world, right?
    FACT.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Funniest was watching the newspaper round up the other night "well no real point looking at the express".
  • Proxy
    Proxy Posts: 245 Forumite
    Do they seriously have nothing else to talk about?

    Royal Family, House Prices, Diana, Royal Family, Diana, House Prices

    Must be bloody easy job being editor of the Express. Standard templates and change a few words here and there.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    DervProf wrote: »
    And 68% doesn't sound that impressive.

    Not when it was over 70% last year (for the previous decade).
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Not when it was over 70% last year (for the previous decade).

    So much for the 300% the bears claim.:)
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  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    Proxy wrote: »
    Do they seriously have nothing else to talk about?

    Royal Family, House Prices, Diana, Royal Family, Diana, House Prices


    You forgot Maddie Mccan
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