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Paul Hodges: UK house prices to fall 50% in global ‘Great Unwinding’

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  • hpifever
    hpifever Posts: 106 Forumite
    caronoel (15-06-2015), chucknorris (14-06-2015), DTDfanBoy (14-06-2015), Generali (14-06-2015), HAMISH_MCTAVISH (14-06-2015), mayonnaise (15-06-2015), mystic_trev (14-06-2015), vivatifosi (14-06-2015)

    thanks, thanks, thanks, house prices need to go up and up thanks thanks thanks. Luckily there more people who want house prices to go down than up.
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,793 Forumite
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    hpifever wrote: »
    caronoel (15-06-2015), chucknorris (14-06-2015), DTDfanBoy (14-06-2015), Generali (14-06-2015), HAMISH_MCTAVISH (14-06-2015), mayonnaise (15-06-2015), mystic_trev (14-06-2015), vivatifosi (14-06-2015)

    thanks, thanks, thanks, house prices need to go up and up thanks thanks thanks. Luckily there more people who want house prices to go down than up.



    Why 'luckily'? What people want, won't make any difference to what the market actually does, I imagine most people would like free ice creams every summers day, but that isn't going to happen either.

    I'm not sure where you get 'need' from? Sure it would boost my retirement fund, but that 'want' is pretty far from 'need'.
    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
  • Gavin234
    Gavin234 Posts: 92 Forumite
    Killerseven wrote: »
    Too late, only one side of the fence here. Dare you consider there re to sides.
    There are always two sides it's just most on here only look at one side, over on HPC they look at the other.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    purch wrote: »

    Can you provide a few examples ?

    Okay, just one example then ??
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    Why 'luckily'? What people want, won't make any difference to what the market actually does, I imagine most people would like free ice creams every summers day, but that isn't going to happen either.

    I'm not sure where you get 'need' from? Sure it would boost my retirement fund, but that 'want' is pretty far from 'need'.


    I`m sure most BTL landlords would like to keep their favourable tax perks, but he ho......
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Did house prices fall 50% yet?

    Would someone tell me when this is going to happen please so I can get a short on without having to pay to hold a position for years.
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Did house prices fall 50% yet?

    Would someone tell me when this is going to happen please so I can get a short on without having to pay to hold a position for years.


    The chances of selling on a BTL flat just went down 50%.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    The chances of selling on a BTL flat just went down 50%.

    Great.

    How do I make money from this? I have a put option I can buy but when do I buy it?

    I've read consistent reports about how the market is just about to crash. In a bit. Ah no, a while later. Then over a decade later...........
  • chucknorris
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    I`m sure most BTL landlords would like to keep their favourable tax perks, but he ho......

    Yes of course I would have, but there isn't any point in crying over spilt milk. Far better to adopt the 'I've already made more than I need, and I've had a good 25 years out those perks, and I'll be selling up soon anyway' approach.
    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
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    Yes of course I would have, but there isn't any point in crying over spilt milk. Far better to adopt the 'I've already made more than I need, and I've had a good 25 years out those perks, and I'll be selling up soon anyway' approach.


    The time to sell up BTL`s is NOW, not soon, IMO.
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