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Desperate property ads
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And right on cue......baby_boomer wrote: »Persimmon will double your deposit
Times Online - Persimmon slashes dividend as profits slump by 64% in the six months to June 2008
The bill for doubling buyers' deposit will come from the next two sets of profits - or losses, as the case may be.
When Declan interviewed the Chairman on BBC he was quite upbeat - muttering about current traffic to the website still being at April levels. Since when did that ever help the bottom line
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baby_boomer wrote: »When Declan interviewed the Chairman on BBC he was quite upbeat - muttering about current traffic to the website still being at April levels. Since when did that ever help the bottom line ?
That web traffic is us, looking for desperate ads (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Imagine Homes has HBOS involvement, and despite my not agreeing with how they've deployed money in this instance, I doubt they'd be involved if there was anything legally incorrect with it.
> Cold shiver <
It is too early in the morning for me to be creeped out by any G.Bovey stuff. :mad:
Have you noticed the date on the D.Mail news item about the Bovies?
Cancel that it seems to have been corrected or perhaps I have a faulty browser. (It seemed to have a sexual connotation )0 -
These ad's remind me of the way GM is trying to sell Hummer's and SUV's to public - fuel subsidized at $2.99 for 2 years - anything above $2.99 you pay - when gas was at $4.00 a gallon.
They will blow and blow if they want to sell.Recession - if you are forced to drink beer at your home.
Depression - if you have no beer to drink at all!
I don't see any of the above - so where is it (recession)?0 -
Our good friends Barratt Homes, again, in today's Times Property Section.
100% Home Exchange [presumably with the Barratt employed surveyor]
2 Year Mortgage subsidy [Barratt will fork out for any amount above your current mortgage payments for 2 years
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Stamp Duty paid [Don't worry Darling]
Free bespoke removals package
7 Day Home Exchange Programme
No HIPs to complete on your old home
No EA fees0 -
25% OFF!
Fairview Homes offer you "Flying Start" on 2 Bed apartments in Tunbridge Wells [or is that actually a guaranteed "Crash Landing? :rotfl: ]
"First Time Buyers, with Flying Start you own 100% of your own home for 75% of the price! No rent or interest to pay on the remaining 25% for up to ten years!"0 -
baby_boomer wrote: »"First Time Buyers, with Flying Start you own 100% of your own home for 75% of the price! No rent or interest to pay on the remaining 25% for up to ten years!"
How can they get away with that? Seriously? So you own 100% of your home, but ten years later pay off the balance? What balance? Erm... Trading Standards anyone?
If it was a clean cut "our houses were overpriced so we're now selling them at a reduced price, 25% off original asking" it'd be fair enough, but doesn't seem like that's what they're doing to me. Of course, they'd STILL be overpriced, but that's not the point here.0 -
From Metro
Escala 2 Gants Hill
"My new apartment from just £131,250 [100% price = £175K] it was to [sic] good to resist [with the same "Flying Start" deal as above]."
60% already sold!
And from Genesis Homes
"Full sales ahead......New homes selling fast :rolleyes: "
Part buy 25-75% / Part Rent 75-25%.0 -
From https://www.propertyinvestor.co.uk
Why are conditions perfect for serious property investors?
"Because house builders have virtually stopped building. The industry is shrinking and will take years to recover. The housin shortage will result in the reinstatement of house price growth and the continuation of the strong rental growth."
"Because UK property is always going to be a great long term investment and its a buyers market for those who know what they are doing...."0 -
pickles110564 wrote: »I dont know where you are from but the market is not in a desperate state, house prices are not dropping they are just reaching the level that they should have been marketed for in the first place.
After all the so called crash hype people are starting to realise that it has not happened and are now starting to buy once more.:beer:
What planet are you on? If prices are "reaching the level" to where they should be, that means a PRICE DROP, however you mask it they have dropped!!!
David0
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