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Average price of FTB properties down 23% since peak says lloyds.

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  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    Why are you continuing the discussion on this thread when you keep saying you don't want to continue the discussion on this thread? Why do you ask me to respond on the other thread and then when I do, you berate me on this one for not responding?

    You really are slow aren't you geneer? :rotfl::rotfl:

    Sigh. I continued to post to address your non-point RM.

    Why are you still posting on this thread?
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Is Geneer still posting about his favourite subject (himself)?

    I'm still laughing about that joke he played. Apart from the fact we never would have heard anything about it had prices crashed post 2009 and the joke was on anyone who thought Geneer had something worthwhile to say rather than the 'bulls' it was brilliant.
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    wotsthat wrote: »
    Is Geneer still posting about his favourite subject (himself)?

    I'm still laughing about that joke he played. Apart from the fact we never would have heard anything about it had prices crashed post 2009 and the joke was on anyone who thought Geneer had something worthwhile to say rather than the 'bulls' it was brilliant.


    House prices crashed in 07/08 wotsthat.
    And they're still falling.
    Try again.

    Hey, why don't you throw in your lot with RM?
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    Actually, I just had to look back one page on the thread you chose to post. :rotfl:

    In any event, now that your half decade war wholly revolves around what one random. slightly cooky poster says on an internet forum, I might as well pop this more recent MSparks quote into the mix.
    http://www.creditcrunch.co.uk/financial_crisis_topic/10652-bear-wave-2012/page__view__findpost__p__168399
    mSparks wrote:
    You gave us two years of Pimp, Fubra and Hamish spamish.
    That wasn't a nice gift.
    :rotfl:



    MSparks contradicting himself again. :T
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    House prices crashed in 07/08 wotsthat.
    And they're still falling.

    Didn't ISTL post a graph which demonstrated that the crash didn't really happen in your VI area? I remember you preferred to trot out your meme rather than engage in any debate on the subject.

    Some volatility in the data for sure due to low transactions but anyone in Edinburgh seems to have been fairly well cushioned from the falls seen in other parts of the UK. I wish my VI area had held up as well as yours.

    I'm not sure how old you are but with hindsight don't you wish you'd bought years earlier?
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    edited 29 December 2011 at 7:20PM
    wotsthat wrote: »
    Didn't ISTL post a graph which demonstrated that the crash didn't really happen in your VI area? I remember you preferred to trot out your meme rather than engage in any debate on the subject.

    No he didn't. And we knew this because I had engaged him in debate about the same data many times. :)

    I also know the "crash happened" because I was able to check what was actually going on in my "VI area". Via property sales searches.
    ;)
    wotsthat wrote: »

    Some volatility in the data for sure due to low transactions but anyone in Edinburgh seems to have been fairly well cushioned from the falls seen in other parts of the UK. I wish my VI area had held up as well as yours.

    I'm afraid that Edinburgh was and is not "immune".

    wotsthat wrote: »

    I'm not sure how old you are but with hindsight don't you wish you'd
    bought years earlier?

    Do I wish I had bought well before the final years of a bubble?
    A bit of a stupid question.
    Could I have bought? A different question.
    Are there other factors. Of course.
  • Pimperne1
    Pimperne1 Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    edited 29 December 2011 at 7:56PM
    Rinoa wrote: »
    ...said geneer, making his 28th post of the day. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    With the low numbers of transactions, the amount he paid, the type of house he bought and the approximate date might we be able to find out which house belongs to geneer?

    Something like this:

    http://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/edinburgh/?sold_price_types=S&sold_price_years=3&pn=12

    Haven't been on the net too much and only have a few minutes tonight but if anyone else has more information it might be interesting as you can sort this by house type etc.

    I think I saw him try to move the goal posts earlier on from Dec to sometime between Dec and Apr and maybe this was because he suddenly thought "Oh No, Pimps might turn up for Hogmanay":

    http://www.edinburghshogmanay.org/

    Looks like only about 25 houses sold in that period and he has definitely confirmed on other threads that he bought in Dec 09. I think he tried to muddy the waters further by saying he bought out in the burbs but I'm guessing it will be walking distance to Burger King. I really do hope its not the one in Broomhouse Place (EH11 3UE). Google map doesn't do it any favours.
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    geneer wrote: »
    No he didn't. And we knew this because I had engaged him in debate about the same data many times. :)

    Unless I've missed something I don't recollect you debating about anything - certainly not the lack of a crash in your VI area.

    It was pretty clear. Applying the word crash to Edinburgh is overly dramatic. You've said that you've got a good deal x% below peak etc. and that's great but you're using this single transaction as evidence of a crash which is nonsense.

    geneer wrote: »
    Do I wish I had bought well before the final years of a bubble? A bit of a stupid question.
    Could I have bought? A different question.
    Are there other factors. Of course.

    That sounds like an artfully crafted way of not answering the question and protecting your backstory.
  • Pimperne1 wrote: »
    With the low numbers of transactions, the amount he paid, the type of house he bought and the approximate date might we be able to find out which house belongs to geneer?

    i've got a halifax mortgage. if i remember right they take the initial payment is around 14 days after completeion so that means geneers house purchase would have completed around the 4th feb 2010

    nothing on that list around 4th Feb tho looks like it'd be his

    if i was guessing tho i'd say it was 15 northfield crescent eh8 7pz bought on 21 jan as looks like it ticks a few boxes (i.e sold for 20% off peak)
    'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'
    GALATIANS 6: 7 (KJV)
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    i've got a halifax mortgage. if i remember right they take the initial payment is around 14 days after completeion so that means geneers house purchase would have completed around the 4th feb 2010

    nothing on that list around 4th Feb tho looks like it'd be his

    if i was guessing tho i'd say it was 15 northfield crescent eh8 7pz bought on 21 jan as looks like it ticks a few boxes (i.e sold for 20% off peak)

    Literally the first post of this sockie.:rotfl:
    Not exactly Mi5 material.
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