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House prices won't crash - say Daily Express

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  • Treadmill
    Treadmill Posts: 1,102 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    Your argument doesn't make financial sense at all. Yes you can buy at the peak, watch it fall and in 10 years watch it reach the previous price and go up past it. BUT why don't you wait get a significantly better house and by the 10 year mark have a better quality of life.

    :exclamatiI see this mentality in self harmers at work, it just isn't logical.
    selfharm.gif


    Why make things harder for yourself :question: :huh:


    You obviously don't see and would rather wish your life away waiting for the perfect moment to buy. Good luck with that.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    If you've got enough money to buy at the peak of prices, then fair do's.

    But most people are really stretching themselves to buy houses, so it would be financially inadvisable for them to do so, when they could simply wait.

    It seems to me, however ..... there's a lot of rich bugg4hs that hang out in these forums .... so maybe it's OK for them to do it.

    If I had a job and was earning a lot of money now and felt I had a future working life for the next 40 years I'd probably be buying. The reality is I have no job and am most likely to not be earning good money in my next one, nor to earn consistently in the future thereafter. And any mortgage I get would have to be very limited in timespan due to my age. So it would be completely nuts for me to even think about buying anything at a peak.
  • baby_boomer
    baby_boomer Posts: 3,883 Forumite
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    John "Wrigler" Wriglesworth is a paid up consultant to the building society sector & long term housing bull.

    If press wanted to discuss the Newcastle BS annual results they got a phone line to his company.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    brit1234 wrote: »
    Your argument doesn't make financial sense at all. Yes you can buy at the peak, watch it fall and in 10 years watch it reach the previous price and go up past it. BUT why don't you wait get a significantly better house and by the 10 year mark have a better quality of life.

    :exclamatiI see this mentality in self harmers at work, it just isn't logical.
    selfharm.gif


    Why make things harder for yourself :question: :huh:


    I think using this image is as irresponsible as the article, will you stop posting stupid images on your posts as it makes the threads harder to negotiate.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
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    Well said Mr B.

    Why do people buy the Daily Express?

    (Dyslexia Reps is an anagram of Daily Express)

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • brit1234
    brit1234 Posts: 5,385 Forumite
    I think using this image is as irresponsible as the article, will you stop posting stupid images on your posts as it makes the threads harder to negotiate.

    No. I'm sorry if you have problems handling words and pictures but it was something most of us grasped age 5.

    I can see why now there are so many blinded people who jumped into property investment stupidly ignoring common sense.
    :exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.

    Save our Savers
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    brit1234 wrote: »
    I can see why now there are so many blinded people who jumped into property investment stupidly ignoring common sense.
    I would think that it is the bitter and twisted you that lacks common sense.
    If you do one day be able to afford your own home, I would bet you will be the largest supporter of HPI.
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite

    It seems to me, however ..... there's a lot of rich bugg4hs that hang out in these forums .... so maybe it's OK for them to do it.

    If I had a job

    We know that you have brought the no job on yourself from your previos post.
    Like I have told you in the past, the company I work are hiring and pay excellant money for unskilled, unqualified thicko's like myself.
    The company has several over 40 year service, 30 & 25 like myself and I have been hiring over 50's in the last set of interviews.
    All that is required a brilliant dedicated work ethic and prepared to work shifts.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    brit1234 wrote: »
    No. I'm sorry if you have problems handling words and pictures but it was something most of us grasped age 5.

    I can see why now there are so many blinded people who jumped into property investment stupidly ignoring common sense.

    Pictures i can handle, your stupid ones i can't.
    As for your second paragraph please change the record.
  • Snooze
    Snooze Posts: 2,041 Forumite
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    brit1234 wrote: »
    No. I'm sorry if you have problems handling words and pictures but it was something most of us grasped age 5.

    :rotfl: Thanks for the giggle Brit!

    Rob
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