Game: find some old "there won't be a crash" posts.

John_Pierpoint

Is it the 5 year olds trying to have the last word again, when the rest of us have completely lost the thread?

mr.broderick

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Is it the 5 year olds trying to have the last word again, when the rest of us have completely lost the thread?

Heavens John..Someone starts a thread...let's play a little game..let's find the old threads that said there won't be a crash...you gotta expect us 5 year olds to get stuck in ..no ?.;)

tomstickland

Just a bit of fun.

John_Pierpoint

See you all in "The Arms"?

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

See you all in "The Arms"?

I find that place too rough most of the time.
It's much tamer over here on Housing.

John_Pierpoint

There are rough types on MSE - surely not;)

Getting sort of back on thread and acknowledging that it is the price of land that goes up and down:

We will all be missing threads like this between now and Xmas (2012 ?), won't we?.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=4782517

[It is nice to see Doozergirl exposing the scammer]

IveSeenTheLight

carolt wrote: »

Thanks. Can you explain how to find various areas in the early 90's crash? I can only see figures for 2006 and 2007.

Would be very interested to see more detailed data.

http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/includes/19_01_08PostTownsData3.xls

Its an excel spreadsheet.
Scroll left and right to see prices going back to 1988

MrDT

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/includes/19_01_08PostTownsData3.xls

Its an excel spreadsheet.
Scroll left and right to see prices going back to 1988

An awful lot of years have an average price of £0 recorded in my area.

And there was me thinking that a nice house for 75k was being optimistic

Here's to 100% falls! :T

:rotfl:

IveSeenTheLight

MrDT wrote: »

An awful lot of years have an average price of £0 recorded in my area.

And there was me thinking that a nice house for 75k was being optimistic

Here's to 100% falls! :T

:rotfl:

Yeah, I saw that for some area's, I presumed that the data was not available or there was some changes to the borough or something.

Sorry I can't do anything to fix any that have not recorded the figures for that year.
If you are missing one year (say 1993), you could take the average between the years 1992 and 1994, not as the actual price, but so that you can follow the trend between years with actual figures.

I hope you managed to get some good useable data though

MrDT

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Yeah, I saw that for some area's, I presumed that the data was not available or there was some changes to the borough or something.

Sorry I can't do anything to fix any that have not recorded the figures for that year.
If you are missing one year (say 1993), you could take the average between the years 1992 and 1994, not as the actual price, but so that you can follow the trend between years with actual figures.

I hope you managed to get some good useable data though

Hehe sadly most of the figures are zero for the two towns I'm interested in - one of them only has figures for 1988, 1989, 2002, and 2003, the other has those years plus 2000 and 2001. No worries though, it's still very interesting data regardless of the holes.

The data shows me that my area has actually been far worse affected by the boom than I had expected. Average price 2002 ~77k, average price 2003 ~103k, that's +33% IN ONE YEAR :eek: For some reason I had been under the impression that prices had remained fairly sane round here Maybe my 'maximum drop of 25% over a couple years in the local area' guesstimate was a bit conservative

Thanks for the link IveSeenTheLight, without a shadow of a doubt you're my favourite bull on here :money: