Rightmove Jan +0.4% YoY, -0.8% MoM

rozeepozee

shortchanged wrote: »

- 44 million property searches in first 10 days of 2012, up 27% on 2011, highlighting pent-up demand held back by ongoing mortgage famine

I look on rightmove quite a lot but I am not a serious buyer. Does that count as pent up demand?

It's probably just a lot of people bored of facebook after Christmas, looking for a change of scene.

Good point! I bought at auction in November and was at a loose end over the holidays, so I had a nosey at what was still on the market (everything!)

geneer

RenovationMan wrote: »

Have you noticed that rewired is the only person to thank him. Even his bear mates have abandoned him. He still craves attention though, did you see the desperate comment he made when he quoted me? You can almost hear the pleading in the text "connect with me, pleeeaaasseee".

Sorry geneer, I can't be bothered mate, you're not worth the candle. I've had a good laugh at your expense with the house buying thing, but you're a one trick pony - all you do is try and insult people to drag them into an argument and get yourself some attention.

You're so desperate and needy it's, frankly, rather creepy.

But as we’ve learned RenovationMan your “can’t be bothered” phase usually occours after an extended furious period when you are very much bothered, usually ending in some embarrassing meltdown as you fail to make your arguments stack up.

Following which, you degenerate matters until the point where you metaphorically “walk in on your self”, and are forced to weep and wail about how you were dragged into it.

For example, I forced you to quietly replace your backfiring cartoon whilst covering up the change with hilariously transparent lie. Right you are then. Glad we cleared that up.

Rather makes you a desperate, lying, hypocritical character.
And frankly, rather creepy.:eek: But in a funny way. :rotfl:

RenovationMan

See. One trick pony. :rotfl:

I rest my case. :cool:

RUN_RABBIT_RUN

geneer wrote: »

Rather makes you a desperate, lying, hypocritical character.
And frankly, rather creepy.:eek: But in a funny way. :rotfl:

oh dear, calling someone else a liar and a hypocrite in the same sentence

and creepy too! :eek:

more irony, more massive stone shaped holes in that glass house :T

even rewired couldn't bring himself to thank 270 of your posts :rotfl:

RenovationMan

As I correctly predicted at Christmas time when we were in the midst of geneer's 'house gate', whether geneer bought a house or not isn't the important thing. It's the fact that he has announced that he has bought a house and has now painted himself into a corner.

He can no longer 'play the bear' and mock his enemies when house prices fall because he (allegedly) is also impacted. He can no longer cheerlead house price falls because the 'bear gang' will not believe that a recent buyer is happy to lose hard earned cash (whereas the 'old timer' bears are sitting on 300% HPI and can be quite relaxed about a 10% drop here or there). He can't become a housing bull, for obvious reasons. He can't comment on economic data and form a reasoned argument because, well because he doesn't know how to.

So as I predicted, he will try and get attention with random insults and when people ignore him he will quietly fade away. I doubt he'll still be on this site (or indeed CC) in three to six months time.

This house 'purchase' of geneer's is the best thing that could happen as far as the forum is concerned. His only get out clause would be to say that he hasn't bought a house and that it was all a joke and that his 'winky' avatar proves it. TBH, even geneer isn't that pathetic.... is he?

Anyway, just a few months more and we'll be back with our geneer free zone.

chewmylegoff

no, the best thing that could happen as far as the forum is concerned is for all the stupid arguments with/by/about geneer to stop and for no-one to ever mention HPC again.

IveSeenTheLight

RenovationMan wrote: »

Anyway, just a few months more an we'll be back with our geneer free zone.

Do you not think in this scenario that he could "re-invent" himself

RenovationMan

chewmylegoff wrote: »

no, the best thing that could happen as far as the forum is concerned is for all the stupid arguments with/by/about geneer to stop and for no-one to ever mention HPC again.

Suits me, I've never been on HPC or CC and I'm not terribly interested in house price movements.

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Do you not think in this scenario that he could "re-invent" himself

Probably, but we'd spot him pretty quickly I think as he only knows certain words and phrases (deliciously, astonishing lack of self-awareness, meme) and he'd be laughed off the board for playing the bear.

Nah, as I said, he's a one trick pony and his time is coming to an end.

System

Just stop replying to him, he's already resorted to quoting Hamish as much as possible to make personal attacks in the absence of any opinion of his own.

neverdespairgirl

RenovationMan wrote: »

Plus it means that you have to move away from neighboursand friends that you could have known for decades. With kids living at home for longer and Grandchildren staying over, it often makes sense for retirees to hold onto family homes that little bit longer than they were planning to.

You don't necessarily have to move half way across the country, though.

My parents are going to sell their family house - they bought it when they had 4 children living at home, and now they don't have any still under their roof. But they intend to buy something smaller very close by.