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Rightmove Nov + 1.2% YoY, -3.1% MoM

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  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    a property market cannot stand a rigid credit crunch, end of!!

    If there is nothing to buy, then it doesn't matter what the hec happens in the Banks ........ and, whatever gets to the market gets snapped up by those who use savings to buy - again, any credit crunch has zero effect.

    Only those who need to borrow would be affected - but, there is nothing for them to buy, so it's all academic.
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • Horizon81
    Horizon81 Posts: 1,594 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    MrRee wrote: »
    I assume you OWN one then?

    Or, why are you still renting and buying someone else's house for them?

    Shame your other post about your day in town just got deleted. Darn that brit and his dodgy images. We'll have to start up the character assassination all over again...
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    Horizon81 wrote: »
    Shame your other post about your day in town just got deleted. Darn that brit and his dodgy images. We'll have to start up the character assassination all over again...

    Yeah ... what a muppet Brit1234 is .... posting filth - and I was on a roll too ............... ;)

    Anyway, have you bought one of these cheap houses in your area?
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • MrRee wrote: »
    Yeah ... what a muppet Brit1234 is .... posting filth - and I was on a roll too ............... ;)

    Anyway, have you bought one of these cheap houses in your area?

    Of course not...
  • Are you for real:rotfl:

    Amazing lack of understanding of economics, a property market cannot stand a rigid credit crunch, end of!!
    .
    A nice concise explanation of house market economics. The only issue I would have is that the time scales are undetermined, and things are certainly taking much longer than any bear expected.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Well thats another thread that may aswell be deleted.
  • MrRee wrote: »
    If there is nothing to buy, then it doesn't matter what the hec happens in the Banks ........ and, whatever gets to the market gets snapped up by those who use savings to buy - again, any credit crunch has zero effect.

    Only those who need to borrow would be affected - but, there is nothing for them to buy, so it's all academic.


    There will allways be houseS to buy, 500,000 people die each year for starters.
  • There will allways be houseS to buy,

    Yes there will.

    But any significant fall in supply will drive prices up.

    To put it in perspective, at the end of 2007 there were 1.1 million houses on the market.

    By the start of 2009 there were just 600K, as falling prices reduced supply.

    At which point prices started soaring, even though purchases were at significantly lower levels than today.
    500,000 people die each year for starters.

    And yet we still add 250,000 new households a year, and population grows by north of 400,000 people per year.
    “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”
  • Well, reading the report there's not much to be excited about for anyone - this fall just cancels out recent rises and is in line with recent Novembers. With low volumes, the indices seem to fluctuate wildy with only a mild hint of a very gentle fall. Clearly though we're not looking at a healthy market however flat the figures are.
  • rightmove, meaningless.
    FACT.
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