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Loads of new properties just come on the market

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  • daveyliver
    daveyliver Posts: 61 Forumite
    Not seeing massive drops in my area Im hoping to live in. A couple have shaved a few k off. Most are standing firm. One was even put on two days ago for £114,995 and after todays news put it up to £119,995, The only logic I can see in that is they want £114,995 and are hoping someone offers that.

    Also seeing a lot taking a hundred quid off asking and a fiver!:confused:
    "Instead of saying someone was avaricious I'd say they were bloody greedy"
  • SquatNow
    SquatNow Posts: 2,285 Forumite
    daveyliver wrote: »
    Not seeing massive drops in my area Im hoping to live in. A couple have shaved a few k off. Most are standing firm. One was even put on two days ago for £114,995 and after todays news put it up to £119,995, The only logic I can see in that is they want £114,995 and are hoping someone offers that.

    Also seeing a lot taking a hundred quid off asking and a fiver!:confused:


    I love that term. Sounds like "I'm not budging and I know I'll win". Suggests buyers are 7 year olds who need to be educated.

    In reality it like standing there with your fingers in your ears going:
    lalalalalalalalala I'm not listening I'm not listening lalalalalalala prices only ever go up lalalalalalala spring bounce spring bounce lalalalalalalala
    as a tidal wave sweeps in behind you.
    Bankruptcy isn't the worst that can happen to you. The worst that can happen is your forced to live the rest of your life in abject poverty trying to repay the debts.
  • LittleMissAspie
    LittleMissAspie Posts: 2,130 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Make sure you've got the very latest version (last 2-3 days). There was a v2 update, but there's another one since. First update was a bit buggy.

    Once I'd installed the very latest version, I went through and it made a lot of difference.
    I can't see a version 2 anywhere :confused: I have installed 1.0.4.3 but there is no difference to the results. I'm sure that was my version anyway.
  • daveyliver
    daveyliver Posts: 61 Forumite
    SquatNow wrote: »
    I love that term. Sounds like "I'm not budging and I know I'll win". Suggests buyers are 7 year olds who need to be educated.

    In reality it like standing there with your fingers in your ears going:
    lalalalalalalalala I'm not listening I'm not listening lalalalalalala prices only ever go up lalalalalalala spring bounce spring bounce lalalalalalalala
    as a tidal wave sweeps in behind you.

    Its true I hear it in work everyday "not my house" and "mines worth £xxx,xxx"

    A colleague of mine has had her house up for sale for two years at £299,995, ok its in a lovely area and shes done loads to it, but She wants to buy a mobile home and travel round france with the proceeds of the sale.

    I asked how much she paid for it and it was 100K 8 years ago, I said why dont you drop under the £250k mark to make it more attractive to buyers (stamp duty etc) and you come out still with a healthy profit, she said no every valuation she had came at over £300k so its worth that.

    Im afraid she will be going to france on a couple of weeks holiday only, for the forseeible future, merci!
    "Instead of saying someone was avaricious I'd say they were bloody greedy"
  • RichardDJ
    RichardDJ Posts: 67 Forumite
    I've seen an increase of new e-mails from yourmove etc, nothing to note really other than the EA's under pressure and are stepping up the spam!
    Statistics are like a lampost to a drunken man...more for leaning on than for illumination
    .
  • SquatNow
    SquatNow Posts: 2,285 Forumite
    daveyliver wrote: »
    Its true I hear it in work everyday "not my house" and "mines worth £xxx,xxx"

    A house, like anything else, is only worth what someone else is prepared to pay you for it. It could be £299,999. It could be £249.999. It could be 12 chickens and a cow. Value is only defined at transaction.

    I have a coffee cup which I wouldn't sell for less than £50,000. Therefor it is worth £50,000... :rotfl:
    Bankruptcy isn't the worst that can happen to you. The worst that can happen is your forced to live the rest of your life in abject poverty trying to repay the debts.
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    SquatNow wrote: »
    A house, like anything else, is only worth what someone else is prepared to pay you for it. It could be £299,999. It could be £249.999. It could be 12 chickens and a cow. Value is only defined at transaction.

    I have a coffee cup which I wouldn't sell for less than £50,000. Therefore it is worth £50,000... :rotfl:

    Yep to you it is.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Has anyone else noticed this?

    Just had a look on RM.

    No.

    :(

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    SquatNow wrote: »
    I have a coffee cup which I wouldn't sell for less than £50,000. Therefor it is worth £50,000... :rotfl:

    I'd like to bet that it's a tea cup and that the coffee is squatting.

    Cuckoo!

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • SquatNow
    SquatNow Posts: 2,285 Forumite
    mr.broderick wrote: »
    Yep to you it is.

    um, yeah ok.

    Family heirlooms may be priceless. The owner will never sell them.

    Of course the man on antiques roadshow will tell them what they are worth...

    "This vase is worth 100 trillion pounds as you'de never sell it for less"

    um, yeah. next.
    Bankruptcy isn't the worst that can happen to you. The worst that can happen is your forced to live the rest of your life in abject poverty trying to repay the debts.
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