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Originally posted by sasguru View PostI'm buying a BTL at the moment. Am I financially illiterate and if so why?
This should be good
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Originally posted by swamp View PostFrom my experience the property market is in good health!
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostTrue, and I've noticed where I've been looking (N London) that there's a lot of property still on the market that's moving. I'm still not buying though - I believe that there's still room for the market to fall.
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Originally posted by swamp View PostI'm selling my flat and it's now under offer at a decent price after spending about five days on the market. I stand to get more than I paid in 2006 -- not a great deal, but enough to be quite happy with. There was plenty of interest from first time buyers as there is a big shortage of affordable properties, in my area at least.
From my experience the property market is in good health!
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I'm selling my flat and it's now under offer at a decent price after spending about five days on the market. I stand to get more than I paid in 2006 -- not a great deal, but enough to be quite happy with. There was plenty of interest from first time buyers as there is a big shortage of affordable properties, in my area at least.
From my experience the property market is in good health!
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Originally posted by KentPhilip View PostNo this is a bull trap. Which means that prices go up a bit after the first declines to sucker more people into the market. Then the real decline begins.
Volumes are very light at the moment. Nobody can afford to sell cos they are in negative equity, and nobody can get a mortgage to buy.
Soon the dam will break with massive repossessions, and mansions for sale at pennies on the pound.
Down 25% this time next year.
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk
We`re definately not going to have a quick recovery in house prices IMO. In the past a house price crash usually follows a stock market crash 18 months later. So given the 40% or whatever drop in stocks that I think mainly started in Sept 2008, and if that rule is going to be correct this time then a real house price crash could be due to start off by Feb 2010.
But who knows?
A friend a quite nice flat on the market at £90k, It`s been at that price for a while but was originally £115k. I see that as an indicator, until lots of transactions start happening at the lower end of the market I wouldn`t take too much notice of the house prices published personally. Oh and this property has been on the market for over 18months. I know the area well and at £90k it is a good dealLast edited by SuperZ; 30 June 2009, 09:27.
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I think that was the adjustment, people are willing to buy again now, there seems to be money in the system again and I had to go in to a final day against 5 bidders to get my house. I am sure crappy BTLs could take another kicking but most were overvalued anyway, 200 grand for a box in a 'executive' tower block. Just my thoughts though.
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It's ok, in the last crash there were periods when they went up for a few months. They'll go down again...
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Due to the way account rules work, companies with a lot of bad debt on their hands are actually holding off repossessing for the next few years.
I know of a bank that has approx 180k properties they want to repossess. If they did it all this year, they'd have to re-classify a lot more property and their capital requirements would go through the roof. To get around it they are spreading those repossessions over the next 3 years.
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No this is a bull trap. Which means that prices go up a bit after the first declines to sucker more people into the market. Then the real decline begins.
Volumes are very light at the moment. Nobody can afford to sell cos they are in negative equity, and nobody can get a mortgage to buy.
Soon the dam will break with massive repossessions, and mansions for sale at pennies on the pound.
Down 25% this time next year.
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk
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