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  • Jog On
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    Start a riot on facebook then you won't have to move again for at least 4 years

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    14% over 3 years? That's less than inflation.
    What will the stock market return? -14% pa?

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  • ChimpMaster
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    14% over 3 years? That's less than inflation.
    As a leveraged investment, with increasing inflation in the economy... it doesn't work out too bad

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    UK house prices 'will hit all-time high by 2015' with average prices climbing by 14% | Mail Online

    Boomed!

    Fill yer boots! Snap up them cheap £700K bedsits in Brum!
    14% over 3 years? That's less than inflation.

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  • ChimpMaster
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    I'm just about to buy my 6th 'home' yippee!!

    Where's a man to put his money these days, if not in hard assets?

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  • DimPrawn
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    Hurry up!

    UK house prices 'will hit all-time high by 2015' with average prices climbing by 14% | Mail Online

    Boomed!

    Fill yer boots! Snap up them cheap £700K bedsits in Brum!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    I'm a crap contractor and even I own my own house, what have you been doing wrong?!
    I was spending too much of my time posting tulip at CUK.

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Real estate agent called to say someone wants to buy nice flats I rent

    My rent up for renewal in a few months...

    I'm a crap contractor and even I own my own house, what have you been doing wrong?!

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  • AtW
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    This time next year I might buy, but for now I'll probably have to pay increased rent for a year, I can't see new owners actually living in it, that's certainly a BTL buy

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  • Pondlife
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    C'mon Alexie just buy somewhere will you. You can install all the mixer taps your like and put a sofa in every room.

    JFDI.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    I would buy my own place here in Munich, renting is €2k a month but to buy the same place I'd need €750k for my 2-bed apartment
    Not really any different to the UK, a house on the market for £750K would cost about £2K to rent.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    This is why renting in the UK is a mugs game.

    I'm in the process of leaving a rented house to one I'm buying.

    I would buy my own place here in Munich, renting is €2k a month but to buy the same place I'd need €750k for my 2-bed apartment

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Real estate agent called to say someone wants to buy nice flats I rent

    My rent up for renewal in a few months...

    What's a 'real estate agent?' And can you have a fake estate? Wait, fake estate that's like when you rent, right?

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    I reckon the whole thing is worth £2-3 mln.

    Not even DimPrawn would lend that much on zoopla or whatever the hell he is using.
    Not to you at any rate!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    Can't you just out bid the potential buyer and buy the whole block yourself? You won't miss a bit of loose change.
    I reckon the whole thing is worth £2-3 mln.

    Not even DimPrawn would lend that much on zoopla or whatever the hell he is using.

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