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Traders predict house prices will fall by 50% in four years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/09/housingmarket.houseprices
The slide in house prices will continue for at least three years and crush the value of a home by almost 50% in real terms, according to a key index of property price futures. Indications from futures trading on long term property prices shows that the average UK home will recover its current value only in 2017.

Great new for all you money saving fans out there.

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  • reweird
    reweird Posts: 281 Forumite
    Only 8 months to go...
  • Oh crikey, you found the one thread I didn't!!!!

    Still, had no responses the first time. Probably just as well.
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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Seems as if this article was too optimistic.
    House prices will then begin a slow climb back to current market values over a period of about six years.

    By 2017...............
  • luvpump
    luvpump Posts: 1,621 Forumite
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    The Article is from 2008 ?? :doh:
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    Complete tosh .................. however nice it would be to trust it!!
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  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    "By the end of this year prices will be down by 10% and by a further 10.5% in 2009, according to the index. Prices will keep dropping through 2010 and cut values by 23.5% when they hit rock bottom in 2011"

    Yeah, right, that's happened hasn't it? :D
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  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    reweird wrote: »
    Only 8 months to go...

    Till you get out of jail ?
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    MrRee wrote: »
    "By the end of this year prices will be down by 10% and by a further 10.5% in 2009, according to the index. Prices will keep dropping through 2010 and cut values by 23.5% when they hit rock bottom in 2011"

    Yeah, right, that's happened hasn't it? :D


    Probably has in some areas, but their still falling in these areas so rock bottom has yet to be achieved.
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