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is it a Crashy wind up ?

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  • westernpromise
    westernpromise Posts: 4,833 Forumite
    You do wonder what the value of that policy is.
  • padington
    padington Posts: 3,121 Forumite
    Quite from HPC ...

    2 hours ago, GreenDevil said:

    'Just reviewed Rightmove and PropertyBee for my local area. Grim reading, everything that was sticking before xmas is now under offer. Stuff selling at previous crazy fantasy prices.

    I cant believe that December prices have taken another leg up. Crazy.

    Is there a need for a housepricecrash web site any more?'
    Proudly voted remain. A global union of countries is the only way to commit global capital to the rule of law.
  • kilby_007
    kilby_007 Posts: 738 Forumite
    edited 11 January 2017 at 11:12AM
    I'm surprised Foxton's are opening more branches after their quarterly trading statement today! Share price opened at 86p - 12% down overnight!
  • noddynoo
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    267 properties have come on here since boxing day 7 have sold. There are many reductions on old stock but new stuff still coming on at silly prices and not shifting. I was invited to 2 open days 21 Jan and I said no I couldn't make it and both offered me same day viewings immediately I said no!! It only takes one seller to take a significant hit to influence others and so I am waiting now until at least April when A50 will finish the job
  • Jack_Johnson_the_acorn
    Jack_Johnson_the_acorn Posts: 1,333 Forumite
    noddynoo wrote: »
    267 properties have come on here since boxing day 7 have sold. There are many reductions on old stock but new stuff still coming on at silly prices and not shifting. I was invited to 2 open days 21 Jan and I said no I couldn't make it and both offered me same day viewings immediately I said no!! It only takes one seller to take a significant hit to influence others and so I am waiting now until at least April when A50 will finish the job

    Whoa Whoa slow down. You think the xmas period is a good time to judge the property market???? You sound as deluded as Crashy. :eek:
  • padington
    padington Posts: 3,121 Forumite
    Crashy's quiet ? Hasn't he got back from Wooders yet ? Or is he unsure what to make of this thread :)
    Proudly voted remain. A global union of countries is the only way to commit global capital to the rule of law.
  • noddynoo
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    Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »
    Whoa Whoa slow down. You think the xmas period is a good time to judge the property market???? You sound as deluded as Crashy. :eek:
    I work in property Have done for 14 years There is a definite shift happening Nothing selling at all from before Xmas either in fact post April SD changes it dropped significantly and after June 23rd volumes fell further. I am not deluded at all. I have bought and sold 17 houses and renovated them and whether it falls or rises doesn;t really bother me but I am just reporting here what I am seeing. If you are thinking of cashing in its too late
  • chucknorris
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    edited 11 January 2017 at 6:16PM
    noddynoo wrote: »
    I work in property Have done for 14 years There is a definite shift happening Nothing selling at all from before Xmas either in fact post April SD changes it dropped significantly and after June 23rd volumes fell further. I am not deluded at all. I have bought and sold 17 houses and renovated them and whether it falls or rises doesn;t really bother me but I am just reporting here what I am seeing. If you are thinking of cashing in its too late

    I put a flat on the market in early December, it was sold in about a week for the full asking price, it was a record price (£475k) for the block for a 2 bed (good news because I have 3 flats in that block). The flat needed modernising through out, I'll put a link up when I have exchanged.

    EDIT: Someone who viewed the sold flat wants to have a look at one of my other flats in the block, and I have said that I would sell for £470k (no estate agents fee, and as he is an investor I would get to rent it out right up to completion, so well worth a £5k drop).
    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
  • noddynoo
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    I put a flat on the market in early December, it was sold in about a week for the full asking price, it was a record price (£475k) for the block for a 2 bed (good news because I have 3 flats in that block). The flat needed modernising through out, I'll put a link up when I have exchanged.

    EDIT: Someone who viewed the sold flat wants to have a look at one of my other flats in the block, and I have said that I would sell for £470k (no estate agents fee, and as he is an investor I would get to rent it out right up to completion, so well worth a £5k drop).

    Well done!
  • chucknorris
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    noddynoo wrote: »
    Well done!

    I'm getting out now (well, next 3-5 years), it is a lifestyle thing more than anything else.
    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
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