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House Prices Surge 68%

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  • nollag2006
    nollag2006 Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    IronWolf wrote: »
    Still, 10% is hardly mindblowing. A few well chosen shares can beat that with far more safety, liquidity and a lot less effort than the housing market.

    So who would you put your money on?

    You seem to be quite an expert on high return, low risk investments (other than property).

    Time to put up or shut up. Which stocks would you buy today, if you are so smart?
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    That you are capable of deleting a couple of quote marks demonstrates nothing.

    Maybe it demonstrates that I might not take things too seriously.
  • nollag2006
    nollag2006 Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    Boringly predictable behaviour from embittered failed pundits in other words.

    Like proud home owner and Moneyweek editor Merryn Somerset Webb

    Unlike you and your chums in HPC, she finally saw the writing was on the wall, and bought back into the market.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    nollag2006 wrote: »
    she finally saw the writing was on the wall, and bought back into the market.

    In Edinburgh no less.:D
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    In Edinburgh no less.:D

    Then she's an idiot. Prices are gonna crash in Edinburgh ah tell ya. :eek:
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Yorkshire bank are offering 4.5% on their 5 year fix ISA.

    I got 5% off The Coventry for a fixed 5 year fixed ISA (only 120 day interest penalty for withdrawal), thanks to Old Slaphead pointing it out :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    I got 5% off The Coventry for a fixed 5 year fixed ISA (only 120 day interest penalty for withdrawal), thanks to Old Slaphead pointing it out :)

    Now only 4.35%.

    Have to snap the deals up when you see them.
  • IronWolf
    IronWolf Posts: 6,445 Forumite
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    nollag2006 wrote: »
    So who would you put your money on?

    You seem to be quite an expert on high return, low risk investments (other than property).

    Time to put up or shut up. Which stocks would you buy today, if you are so smart?

    I have bought quite a few stocks, biggest holdings are in Amlin and Tesco.
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • SteveV2
    SteveV2 Posts: 241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Seems fair. They say it's sunny and it is.
  • crash123
    crash123 Posts: 399 Forumite
    What I want to know is if houses are such a good investment now why in our next local auction are there a number of investment properties which do not look a good investment to me.
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