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Interest rates set to rise again!

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  • sarkin1
    sarkin1 Posts: 283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    This is fantastic news I told you, I told you, I told you, This baby is going to go big time, Just remember what goes up never crashes.
    :cool:
  • Sisyphus
    Sisyphus Posts: 293 Forumite
    sarkin1 wrote: »
    This is fantastic news I told you, I told you, I told you, ....

    how could that be ? this is your first post.
  • sarkin1
    sarkin1 Posts: 283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    You maybe worried that rates are going to go up. But look on the bright side since interest rates have been at an all time low for the last 7 years you must have paid off a big chunk of your mortgage. You may have been prudent and put some away for a rain day.
    :cool:
  • sarkin1
    sarkin1 Posts: 283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I cant find my log in details the system is telling me it cant find my email address?
    :cool:
  • BobProperty
    BobProperty Posts: 3,245 Forumite
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    Xbigman wrote: »
    What Eddie George meant was that when the world economy went into a decline .....
    I must have missed that, cos if China and India are in a recession then they won't half do well when the "world economy" takes an upturn.

    Did you mean American economy? The one where there is now a housing crisis following irresponsible levels of lending :rolleyes:
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    It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
  • CB1979_2
    CB1979_2 Posts: 1,335 Forumite
    i wonder if this thread will get dragged up in a years time with all the other HPC threads to say, hmmm STILL waiting.

    I don't mind there being a "crash", if my place goes up 20% in a year but goes down 20% i have not lost or gained, no biggy.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    CB1979 wrote: »
    i wonder if this thread will get dragged up in a years time with all the other HPC threads to say, hmmm STILL waiting.

    I don't mind there being a "crash", if my place goes up 20% in a year but goes down 20% i have not lost or gained, no biggy.

    Just remember that if it doubles it only has to fall back 50%

    Goes up by 50% it has to go down 33% etc.

    Also rememeber if there is a 'crash' your property may have 'worth' but no value, as no-one would want to buy it.

    This happened the last time round, house may be worth 40k but there is no point in selling it as no-one is interested. Infact EAs may refuse to market it.

    Lets have the house price crash. As I keep saying, capitalism is based on boom/bust so lets have the bust so we can have boom again. Lets all start making money again, not borrowing it to spend.
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
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    sarkin1 wrote: »
    You maybe worried that rates are going to go up. But look on the bright side since interest rates have been at an all time low for the last 7 years you must have paid off a big chunk of your mortgage. You may have been prudent and put some away for a rain day.

    No they havent taken advantage of the rates to 'lower' their debt they have, made their debts bigger for some weird reason by mewing ;)
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I think that this really means that the BoE would be willing to cut interest rates at the expense of price stability. I think that instead of being a selling signal on houses it's a buy for inflation linked bonds.
  • alared
    alared Posts: 4,029 Forumite
    With todays inflation number running at 2.8%,expect a rise next month and another later on.
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