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Nationwide Figures
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So Northern Ireland must have fallen by much more than 2.5%, if the UK average was -2.5%, yes? Dan's post seems to suggest that the worst was -2.5% (Ireland), the rest of the UK didn't see as big drops and some areas went up, and the average somehow still turns out -2.5%!
No. If I remeber rightly it was the West Midlands which was about -5% and Wales which was about -4.5%. All other regions were flatish/rising. The West Midlands and Wales made the UK average fall 2.5% and the media went mental over it.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »The nationwide figures for May don't show region by region, though.
Talking about March0 -
No. If I remeber rightly it was the West Midlands which was about -5% and Wales which was about -4.5%. All other regions were flatish/rising. The West Midlands and Wales made the UK average fall 2.5% and the media went mental over it.
You said "one region", but the whole of Wales and the W Midlands is two, surely?
Anyway, factually, you are wrong, really. I've just looked at the Q1 press release, and it shows drops in EVERY region on a quarterly basis, not a single one was rising, albeit Scotland was essentially flat (0.1% drop). 7 out of the 13 regions, more than half, showed quarterly drops of over 1%....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 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »You said "one region", but the whole of Wales and the W Midlands is two, surely?
Anyway, factually, you are wrong, really. I've just looked at the Q1 press release, and it shows drops in EVERY region on a quarterly basis, not a single one was rising, albeit Scotland was essentially flat (0.1% drop). 7 out of the 13 regions, more than half, showed quarterly drops of over 1%.
Found it:
http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/includes/08_04_08HousePriceIndexMar2008.doc0 -
That's not the Nationwide figures, but the Halifax ones. I think we were thinking of different things.
They do indeed show the figures you mention. It is worth poiting out, though, that when these came out, the Nationwide Q1 figures had already been released, and showed drops in all regions in Q1....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 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »That's not the Nationwide figures, but the Halifax ones. I think we were thinking of different things.
They do indeed show the figures you mention. It is worth poiting out, though, that when these came out, the Nationwide Q1 figures had already been released, and showed drops in all regions in Q1.
Yes, sorry - I started to talk about the March Halifax figures in post #26.0 -
Sorry Dan - I went by the thread heading (Nationwide) instead of what you wrote in 26....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
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Sorry Dan - I went by the thread heading (Nationwide) instead of what you wrote in 26.
ouch. was that a dig at me NDG?
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No, not a dig at all!
I had replied to a later post of yours, not seeing the earlier one where you did state it was Halifax - that's all....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 -
So Northern Ireland must have fallen by much more than 2.5%, if the UK average was -2.5%, yes? Dan's post seems to suggest that the worst was -2.5% (Ireland), the rest of the UK didn't see as big drops and some areas went up, and the average somehow still turns out -2.5%!
Actually, I read Dan's post as saying one region affected the UK average to be -2.5%, not that the worst region was -2.5%
**NOTE** I am not referring that I know these figures to be correctDan: wrote:Yes. It was one region that made the average house price fall by 2.5%. All other regions had very modest falls that month (1 or 2 even had slight rises) but the media had a field day over it.
the timing was brilliant.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
:wall:0
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