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Spring bounce?
shortchanged_2
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21923828
Looks like confidence in the housing market is reaching all time highs after the number of mortgages surged in February......................oops!
Messers McTavish was quoted as saying "Funding for Lending is having a real impact on peoples abilities to buy a house now and the housing market is really taking off."
Looks like confidence in the housing market is reaching all time highs after the number of mortgages surged in February......................oops!
Messers McTavish was quoted as saying "Funding for Lending is having a real impact on peoples abilities to buy a house now and the housing market is really taking off."
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The lack of a spring bounce can be blamed on the snow this year!0
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You need a spring to have a spring bounce.
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Oh yes. Darn that pesky weather.0
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shortchanged wrote: »Oh yes. Darn that pesky weather.
Yup.
Wrong type of humidty coming up this summer too, so that will scupper things a little.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Yup.
Wrong type of humidty coming up this summer too, so that will scupper things a little.
I know, nothing worse than house hunting in hot, sticky, sweaty weather.0 -
These figures are for the banks. Building Socs publish their own figures soon, which have been rising month by month due to FFL
Bears make this mistake every month. Will they never learn?If I don't reply to your post,
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Graham_Devon wrote: »The lack of a spring bounce can be blamed on the snow this year!
Which year... I think we have had that excuse several times now
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Would you be kind enough to explain to shortchanged that the month of February is not in Spring...These figures are for the banks. Building Socs publish their own figures soon, which have been rising month by month due to FFL
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Mallotum_X wrote: »Which year... I think we have had that excuse several times now
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/450430/20130326/cbi-retail-sales-survey-march.htm"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
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