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More bad news for Maidstone House prices

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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    AndyGuil wrote: »
    That is odd. Are they covering the same area in the South East?

    Checked a couple of counties all considerably higher on BBC website
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
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    How boring..who gives a to$$ about Maidstone or house prices? The markets will prevail..
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
  • Sibley
    Sibley Posts: 1,557 Forumite
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    Semi-detached £214,670

    Well seeing as I paid 86,000 for mine even -11% is fine. :rotfl:

    I don't actually live in Maidstone. About 6 miles out of town.
    3 bed detached recently sold for 750,000 in my village. I did post the link up.



    Maidstone is a nice place to live even in the center.

    County town of Kent.
    Could be a lot worse. One thing for sure. I'm making money when I sell.

    I also know that my house will sell in under 4 weeks when it does go up.

    Next door sold for over 220K last year. Was on the market a week. First viewer bought and it's not as nice as my place.

    I'll wait until 2015 and ask 250+ for it.
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  • System
    System Posts: 178,433 Community Admin
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    I've lost track now, is Aberdeenangarse another novelty account for Sibley's benefit?

    That takes him up to about 8.
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  • In real terms that is a drop of over 15% in one year alone, nasty!!

    Cannot say it is as bad around the Cambridgeshire/Herts area
  • Sibley wrote: »
    Well seeing as I paid 86,000 for mine even -11% is fine. :rotfl:

    I don't actually live in Maidstone. About 6 miles out of town.
    3 bed detached recently sold for 750,000 in my village. I did post the link up.



    Maidstone is a nice place to live even in the center.

    County town of Kent.
    Could be a lot worse. One thing for sure. I'm making money when I sell.

    I also know that my house will sell in under 4 weeks when it does go up.

    Next door sold for over 220K last year. Was on the market a week. First viewer bought and it's not as nice as my place.

    I'll wait until 2015 and ask 250+ for it.



    I notice that all of your posts are littered with when "I" do this or when "I" do that, all your posts seem to talk in the singular, I I I or me me me, I take it you are a single man with nobody in your life Sibley.

    Unlike most of this board I welcome you on this board, I really do, I think you honestly provide a mindset that should be witnessed.

    I can honestly say I would sooner see prices rise even more rather than lose the people around me, your life seems so lonely, I can see why you have such a obssession with material things.
  • Sibley wrote: »
    Well seeing as I paid 86,000 for mine even -11% is fine. :rotfl:

    I don't actually live in Maidstone. About 6 miles out of town.
    3 bed detached recently sold for 750,000 in my village. I did post the link up.



    Maidstone is a nice place to live even in the center.

    County town of Kent.
    Could be a lot worse. One thing for sure. I'm making money when I sell.

    I also know that my house will sell in under 4 weeks when it does go up.

    Next door sold for over 220K last year. Was on the market a week. First viewer bought and it's not as nice as my place.

    I'll wait until 2015 and ask 250+ for it.

    sure it did dude :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    face it dude - asking prices down and selling prices down. you have lost man :T
    Maidstone Prices - average reductions at 8.5% (£19,668) Feb 2012 - We thought the dudes were not allowed to drop prices?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    In real terms that is a drop of over 15% in one year alone, nasty!!

    Cannot say it is as bad around the Cambridgeshire/Herts area

    The Land Reg. figure for Kent –2.4, I know Sibley makes rash claims but I still find this thread pointless.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,433 Community Admin
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I still find this thread pointless.

    It keeps the Sibley fanclub all in one place.
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  • Poor old Sibley, he couldn't afford to live in the UK so had to flee to some rat-infested slum to find a hovel to live in and to buy his Missus in a strip joint.

    Let's see...Thailand, good weather all year round, income nicely topped up with a UK rental, humping a fit Thai all night...

    or

    Living in some damp hovel in the North-east like you do, getting mugged on your way back from collecting JSA.

    Tough choice :rotfl:
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