pugoetru

not as loud as i will

Andy Tang

iTrader: (3)

Looks like my worry about additional tax on your only home is unfounded (for now!!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3204474.stm

matt.bowey

The interest rate cant go up too mush or manufacturing will suffer, people loose jobs, recession, end of the world, etc.......

rr_ww

Sooner the better for me.

Getting on a bit and want to get a flat somewhere.

Either that or a 4000% pay rise/Lottery win and I wont care

Gus M

Perhaps lifelong mortgages will become the norm in this country as it is in others i.e. you start the mortgage,pay it until you
die and your offspring carry it on and eventually somewhere down the line the house is paid off. At present the rise in the price of houses is far outstripping the average wage rises so it would
seem something has to change.

StickyMicky

i hope it does crash cos i want a nice 3 bedroom semi with a drive/garage combo in the next few years and ill be ****ed if im paying 120k for one up this way

stephen emery

intresting ?

Thinking of splashing out on a new house as to if i should? Lot of cash

steve

ProperCharlie

IMO the way to approach buying a house is this:

the house i want costs xxxx. to buy it i will need to burrow yyyy. currently i can get a 5 year fixed deal to burrow yyyy at z%. the repayments on the *repayment* mortgage will cost me aa each month. i can afford this, taking into consideration all other debts, expenses, and costs of maintaining the house, yes or no? if no; don't buy it. if yes, do buy it.

very boring strategy but it hasn't made many people homeless.

OllieC

In some other words by Bob Dylan, "Don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin"

davyboy

Thought I'd post here, as the dates are not really important

davegtt

No but it proves how long the discussion has been going on.... 3 years at very least and Im sure it dates back further than that looking at some of the posts.

davyboy

I'd not long purchased my 2nd home in Oct 2006, and have recently moved again......how time flys

davegtt

Time? thats like yesterday

davyboy

Ooops meant Oct 2003

davegtt

Matteeboy

Hope it does from a purely selfish point of view.

davyboy

Have you looked at the dates of the thread Mattee?

Matteeboy

I just have...

Petem95

Yes prices will crash, and IMO it will be within the next 18months.

US market is currently crashing, and historically our market has always followed theirs by 6-18months when theyve crashed.

I'm more worried about a sterling crash however - I hope it hangs on for another couple of years by which time I'll be out of here, and watching the ship sink from dryland! (Australia in my case)

davyboy

I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league
I predict Aston Villa will win the league

Petem95

I predict someone will win, and next year someone will also win. Its a cycle too

Freak

Ditto- need that $ rate to remain a while longer before I jump ship...