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Your ID is highly amusing to me, but loses its credibility when you speak of buying a three-quarters of a million pound property just before we are to have the biggest property price slump in living memory. A bit like when you're trying to enjoy a film or nightmare and something illogical crops up that ruins the fantasy and wakes you up. 1/10.
Duuuhh - in the last 12 months, your house has halved in Euro terms.
What makes you think they won't wait another 12 months?
... but remained stable in Pound terms with a rapidly reducing mortgage interest bill. I may also use my Euros in due course to add to my property portfolio.
Your ID is highly amusing to me, but loses its credibility when you speak of buying a three-quarters of a million pound property just before we are to have the biggest property price slump in living memory...
Having a mortgage of 2% and paying 132 pounds a month, down from 800 pounds 9 months ago , surely beats renting !!! It cannot be long now before house prices start rising again, especially if overseas buyers move into the market with their powerful Euros.
Duuuhh - in the last 12 months, your house has halved in Euro terms.
What makes you think they won't wait another 12 months?
Having a mortgage of 2% and paying 132 pounds a month, down from 800 pounds 9 months ago , surely beats renting !!! It cannot be long now before house prices start rising again, especially if overseas buyers move into the market with their powerful Euros.
The last theory may have legs, but the rest is doubtful. Next year will be estimated 75K repos, 3mill unemployed and banks as tight as arses with lending. Affordability and forced sales will drag down prices another 15%. The latest mortgage rates are way above the base rate also.
The only houses I have seen going for cheap are ones where someone ended up with 2 places at the same time and is desperate to shift one. Other than that most places are not dropping because the owner will not sell for less than they got the place for.
Since interest rates have dropped so much nobody is really pressed to sell now.
Having a mortgage of 2% and paying 132 pounds a month, down from 800 pounds 9 months ago , surely beats renting !!! It cannot be long now before house prices start rising again, especially if overseas buyers move into the market with their powerful Euros.
Well there's no sign of an extension and unless they went to a specialist to obtain realistic 1970's decor throughout, I'd say they'd only mown the lawn in the 10 months of ownership.
Still, they trying to make £170K for living in a house for a few months.
Boomed!
Credit Crunch ™ my rse.
Fair enough - you didn't say any of that in the original post.
You bargain hunters will ruin the housing depression if you can't learn to be patient. It will take a little time before house prices plummet and people are repossessed and left destitute. Can't you just give it a few months before moaning?
The only houses I have seen going for cheap are ones where someone ended up with 2 places at the same time and is desperate to shift one. Other than that most places are not dropping because the owner will not sell for less than they got the place for.
Since interest rates have dropped so much nobody is really pressed to sell now.
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