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Rightmove.. Asking prices fell 1.7%, down £4,138,

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  • joe_blotts
    joe_blotts Posts: 151 Forumite
    how about this one http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37479467.html?premiumA=true

    dropped from about 330-350 in a year. The owner is a now very skint architect(with little work) who spent a fortune doing it up at the height of the bubble in expectations of getting very rich,(they're friends of friends of the wife)


    and the one opposite which has dropped about 100k in a similar time

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22469244.html?premiumA=true

    desperarte sellers getting ever more desperate as the phantom wealth disappears from their properties.
  • jojo1964
    jojo1964 Posts: 902 Forumite
    AVERAGE house prices in Oxfordshire have hit their highest level since the economic downturn.
    Figures from the Land Registry showed the average price for properties sold in May was £241,290, less than £4,000 below the same month in 2008.
    Property experts said a shortage of homes for sale in sought-after areas of Oxford had pushed up prices, but that buyers faced a much harder task in getting mortgages since the crash.

    http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/you...shes_costs_up/
    Thankyou Sir Alex for 26 years
  • Ronnie_Grimes
    Ronnie_Grimes Posts: 16 Forumite
    Rightmove.. Asking prices fell 1.7%, down £4,138,


    Ha ha Ha, What a cracking headline, that's really made my day. The property sheep are realy lining up to get sheared this time.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    homelessskilledworker wrote: »
    Asking prices fell 1.7%, down £4,138, which is the largest drop in July for four years.

    meanwhile, the annual rate of change fell from +2.4% to +2.3%. i.e. in July 2011 they fell by 1.6%...
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Ronnie_Grimes wrote: »
    Rightmove.. Asking prices fell 1.7%, down £4,138,


    Ha ha Ha, What a cracking headline, that's really made my day. The property sheep are realy lining up to get sheared this time.

    The property sheep IMO are the ones that don't realise that the property market is cyclical, i.e. during boom times they think that prices will always rise and during bust times they think it will always fall.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Ronnie_Grimes wrote: »
    Rightmove.. Asking prices fell 1.7%, down £4,138,


    Ha ha Ha, What a cracking headline, that's really made my day. The property sheep are realy lining up to get sheared this time.

    How about gold bug sheep?
    How are they doing ;)
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    How about gold bug sheep?
    How are they doing ;)

    Is he a PM nutter?
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    chucknorris wrote: »
    Is he a PM nutter?

    I don't know, I j ust noticed one of his other posts so early in his MSE username utilisation
    Ronnie_Grimes wrote: »
    Buy Gold, real money, not the stuff they're printing into oblivion every month.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Ronnie_Grimes
    Ronnie_Grimes Posts: 16 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    How about gold bug sheep?
    How are they doing ;)

    Golds been up 12 straight years:D
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Ronnie_Grimes wrote: »
    Golds been up 12 straight years:D

    Really, does that meant it's bubble has peaked and it;s on the way down?
    chart_image.cgi?finance_chart=1&&action=charts&chart%5Fprimary%5Fticker=LSE%3AGOLDPM&chart%5Ftime%5Fperiod=6%5Fmonth&co%5Fdimension%5Eheight=360&co%5Fdimension%5Ewidth=590&csi=53216&finance%5Fchart=1&fixed%5Fticker=1&id=53216&intraday%5Fprices=1&intraday%5Ftrades=1&selected%5Fmenu%5Flink=%2Fdlmedia%2Finvesting&show%5Fmin%5Fmax%5Fpoints=1&stock%5Fexchange%5Fid=1&co_dimension^width=590&hide_volume=&plot_colour=&canvas_colour=&&co_dimension^height=360
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
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