This could be a mistake!

suburbanwifey

StevieJ wrote: »

Shipyards are not Wagland but neither is Fishing-land and I am pretty sure that you could afford this on one wage today

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22859715.html

Not sure I get your supposed sarcasm there. You accused me of being in Wagland when I bought pre-1997. I pointed I was not in Wagland. Neither me nor the neighbour lived in the area you quoted on your silly link. Grimsby is in Yorkshire is it not? I was in the NE at the time, the neighbour working in a shipyard that paid considerably more than would be needed to buy the dump you quote.

Are you what is called a Troll? sad people who make silly quotes to try to undermine sensible posts? get a life eh.

StevieJ

Grimsby is in Yorkshire is it not?

I think not.

crash123

StevieJ wrote: »

Shipyards are not Wagland but neither is Fishing-land and I am pretty sure that you could afford this on one wage today

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22859715.html

This is an auction property.

StevieJ

crash123 wrote: »

This is an auction property.

Plenty more where that came from

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34176286.html

toby3000

suburbanwifey wrote: »

Not sure I get your supposed sarcasm there. You accused me of being in Wagland when I bought pre-1997. I pointed I was not in Wagland. Neither me nor the neighbour lived in the area you quoted on your silly link. Grimsby is in Yorkshire is it not? I was in the NE at the time, the neighbour working in a shipyard that paid considerably more than would be needed to buy the dump you quote.

I think the point that they wanted to make was that it was hardly unusual for women to work before 1997 (well, it depends how far before 1997 you're talking about...) My mother worked, as did most of my mother's friends.

If you lived in the North East and were anywhere anywhere near where the shipyards were (were any left in the mid-90s? Swan Hunter was still limping on I think) then you could easily buy a house now on one income anyway.

DervProf

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Please let me know if you require any further information on this subject.

There's nothing that I really need to know about kit-kats at the moment, but I am very grateful for your kind offer. It's nice to know that if/when a kit-kat conundrum crops up, I have someone to help me out.

paulmapp8306

Personally, I think prices in London and the south east in general will fall by that kind of % - possible slightly less, however prices elsewhere particularly from the Midlands North - will remain roughly static with maybe a slight increase over the same period.

mayonnaise

Graham_Devon wrote: »

But I'm gonna call it.

Land reg, house prices, 135k or under within 3 years.

Feel free to have a field day on this thread and bookmark it etc for the future.

If you insist.

N1AK

mayonnaise wrote: »

If you insist.

Might be a bit less of a waste of time if you could have controlled your urges a little longer and waited till next year when his prediction on what would happen in 3 years was definitively right/wrong.

To his credit his point about London bringing up the average and making a bit of a nonsense of national figures is a salient one. House prices in the entire of some regions are still where they were a decade ago; while prices in London are up over 50% in the same time.

East Midlands 127k June 2004, 127k Now
York & Humber 113k June 2004, 115k Now (Also £2,000 less than when GD posted this)
London 270k June 2004, 410k Now

mayonnaise

N1AK wrote: »

Might be a bit less of a waste of time if you could have controlled your urges a little longer and waited till next year when his prediction on what would happen in 3 years was definitively right/wrong.

All threads seem to get locked after 2 years, so that was not an option.
We can always drag this one up next year.