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You've Never Had It So Good!!!

thequant
thequant Posts: 1,220 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Gone are the days when million-pound properties were the preserve of the super-rich.
With house prices booming, the Land Registry has revealed that, in January, 1,011 homes went for more than £1 million.
Many were in London, but more and more provincial towns and suburbs have become millionaire hotspots.
GWYNETH REES traces 33 homes sold for more than £1 million on just one day: January 31.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2624635/All-sold-just-one-day-Britains-1million-homes.html
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  • thequant
    thequant Posts: 1,220 Forumite
    Fantastic !!
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    It's gone bonkers.

    Clearly people are starting to spend again, those vast savings built up over the lean years are coming out to play!
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I can't wait for the price of other life essentials to double too! I'll feel so much better once beans on toast costs me £5.
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    Your wages will be doubled too, REJOICE!
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • moneyinmypocket
    moneyinmypocket Posts: 908 Forumite
    Rah rah

    Good news all round. It's raining money over the UK
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    MrRee wrote: »
    Your wages will be doubled too, REJOICE!

    Well that's highly unlikely. If I were to look for a job right now I'd see the same wages being advertised as I was earning in 1997.
  • Carl31
    Carl31 Posts: 2,616 Forumite
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    It's all relative. Being a millionaire now days isn't the triumph it used to be 30 / 40 years ago. Give it 20 years, it will probably be the average
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    Carl31 wrote: »
    It's all relative. Being a millionaire now days isn't the triumph it used to be 30 / 40 years ago. Give it 20 years, it will probably be the average


    That's been the case you a while now, some people live in the past though, I remember a few years ago (when they were still looking for Bin Laden) my mother said 'Why don't the Americans offer a million (she didn't state the currency) for someone to kill him'. This Dr Evil clip sums it up nicely:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmXHvGZiSY
    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
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    Carl31 wrote: »
    It's all relative. Being a millionaire now days isn't the triumph it used to be 30 / 40 years ago. Give it 20 years, it will probably be the average

    You have to have at least £10 million nowadays to live the proverbial millionaire lifestyle. After the Labour/LibDem coalition taked us into the Euro a lot more people will be millionaires.
    No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.

    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
  • Gangaweed
    Gangaweed Posts: 169 Forumite
    Don't you love being told how good you have it by some bloke on the Web.

    Thanks, that's really changed my life.
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