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Homeowners slash asking prices at fastest rate this year

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,377 Community Admin
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Nohing novelty about a username "Mr Pricklepants" who you admit has already been banned?

    LOL. Come on now. By all means have a go, but don't screem that it's the pot thats black.

    I don't think you understand what I mean by a novelty account, IE one set up with the sole purpose of having a shout at another person, EG all the "Ree" novelties, "TingTong", "AberdeenAngarse" etc.
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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Joeskeppi wrote: »
    I don't think you understand what I mean by a novelty account, IE one set up with the sole purpose of having a shout at another person, EG all the "Ree" novelties, "TingTong", "AberdeenAngarse" etc.

    Oh right....I don't understand!? Tee hee.

    This particular novelty account of Laura's is VERY clever, having set it up 2 years before Hamish's arrival.

    That's some forsight, I'm sure you will agree!

    "but but but"...
  • System
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    Yes we've already established it isn't a novelty account after all.
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  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    LisbonLaura is an anagram of "Nil Isobar".

    No pressure there, then.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    LisbonLaura wrote: »
    As a case study Hamish I have done very well from you.

    Yes, there really is no limit to my generosity in helping the poor and disadvantaged.

    You're welcome, by the way. :)
    If you were not such a schadenfreude-ridden a*se

    Ahhhh, I love the smell of Schadenfreude in the morning....

    It smells like....

    Victory.

    I might have sent you a percentage; not that you will ever need it of course.

    Heavens no, I suggest you donate it to the "capitulating crashaholics fund".

    Just pop over to hpc, look in one of the obscure sub-forums where the mods hide all the evidence of those who realised they were wrong, like "anecdotals" or "about hpc", and you'll find no end of dejected hpc-ers giving up and buying a house.

    Although as almost all of them would have been financially better off doing so pre-'crash', they really do need all the help they can get. :)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    What I'm about to type just might be true.......

    My friend has just reduced the asking price on her property by £10K. That's 2 viewings and two reductions since it was put on the market a few months ago.

    Seems this bit of anecdotal does tally with Rightmove's recent reports, and most other headlines about the property market.

    So, selling prices are simply based on supply and demand, demand being largely dictated by how generous the banks are feeling.
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  • drussii
    drussii Posts: 19 Forumite
    I think the current price of broccoli is more distressing!
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