A good time to be buying a house?

[PurpleGorilla]

So, what the hell have you being moaning about all this time then!

All those posts, graphs and links about boomers, for nothing

Maybe I don't have 100k from BOMAD to sink as a deposit.

[MrMarkyMark]

Maybe I don't have 100k from BOMAD to sink as a deposit.

Nor do I.
Also, I'm a lot older, don't own my own house and don't moan about it.

You should try it

[PurpleGorilla]

Nor do I.
Also, I'm a lot older, don't own my own house and don't moan about it.

You should try it

You mean gobble up with gusto the scraps dropped from the boomer table. FTS.

[scooterscot]

Don't think I'd sell a house in winter, much more demand in summer and buggers won't be able to tell how terribly insulated it is

Actually a good time to sell. Unless you're living on the flood planes!

More viewers is not immer a good thing. Fewer are actually more serious about taking it forward less likely to waste your time.

[MrMarkyMark]

You mean gobble up with gusto the scraps dropped from the boomer table. FTS.

No, I meant stop moaning about it.

Also, as I have said before, your view / outlook is very narrow.
You could get a house abroad, it does not have to be in the UK.
I am strongly thinking of doing so myself.

[SlipTheJab]

For me it's all about pension's. It's ok living now, but when you get older, who is going to pay you then?

Nothing wrong with being in the buy to let game, just don't complain if taxation changes mean that you're not receiving as much free money as before.

[BrilloPad]

It seems incredible that borrowing can continue to expand at a faster rate than growth. A crunch will come, maybe in the next 12 months, and this may bring prices down. I don't see rates going up (much) for the next 5 years, so if you can afford the payments on a nice place, you can buy some what independent of the state of the market. It's a blacksmiths cottage isn't it? sounds lovely.

In London, from 1989 on, the market did not go down. Unlike the rest of the country.

But now. Prices can only go up up up.

[PurpleGorilla]

No, I meant stop moaning about it.

Also, as I have said before, your view / outlook is very narrow.
You could get a house abroad, it does not have to be in the UK.
I am strongly thinking of doing so myself.

Call me a bigot if you like, but you won't change my views on boomers.

Have applied for overseas gigs - but not landed one yet.

[MrMarkyMark]

Call me a bigot if you like, but you won't change my views on boomers.

Have applied for overseas gigs - but not landed one yet.

Yes, but I'm not a boomer, either.
I just get on with my life, if that involves moving abroad, so be it.

I have looked at a 3 bed, 3 floor, canal side, centrally located, town house, in Amsterdam, for example.
It has 2 terraces, one going the full length of the property, the other behind.
Works out at under £550K.

[MarillionFan]

I would think it is. Just got off the plane to find Id been gazumped on our repo property by an extra £30k higher than me.

Oh well.