Monday, Mar 17, 2008
UK's property downturn will be worse than America's
MoneyWeek: Why the UK's property downturn will be worse than America's
Negative equity is an unpleasant - but very real - prospect for those who bought near the peak of the housing boom. And the pain could be much more drawn-out for defaulting homeowners on this side of the Atlantic.
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1. Landedgentry said...
Partytime! WOOHOO!!
The misery and heartache to all these fools is making my year!
CA$H is KING folks!
2. hpwatcher said...
I think the question now is NOT whether we are going to have a 1990-95 style recession and HPC, but how much worse it is going to be..........
3. plato said...
Article containing facts that I am sure are well known on this site. Consequently we are looking at another scenario now, as to whether the property downturn which is indisputably here will be worse than in the US and by how much?
How the news changes !!!
4. harold said...
Landedgentry, surely that should be:
CA€H is KING folks!
(Actually, cash is soon to worth a lot less than we hoped.)
5. waitingfor hpc said...
yeah but cash versus house prices in the uk will be fine!!!
6. hpwatcher said...
(Actually, cash is soon to worth a lot less than we hoped.)
Depends on whether your bank goes bust or not........
7. Uncle Fargas said...
"Fortunately, lack of supply will keep prices high. There are hoards of FTB's just waiting on the sidelines to leap in the moment prices drop."
- the final bull argument. I wonder how long it will prevail.
8. Landedgentry said...
Harold LOL, yes we can insulate our lofts with those worthless yankee dollars.
9. d'oh said...
Saw a great sig on a forex site - Tonight we are going to party like it's 1929...
10. Happy Mondays said...
Wether it's cash or bricks and mortar, it all sucks! We get spoon fed infomation, it's boom time, now it's a credit crunch, the best ten years ever, the worst is still to come! and we all follow, fueled by greed or fear. How many times has this happened and how many more times has it got to happen, before we wake to the fact this banking / financial system that was forced on us does not work...
When the last river is poisoned, the last wild animal hunted, the last tree felled, Remember You cannot eat money.(Hopi indian)
11. Titaniccaptain said...
Lloyds tsb seems to be the least exposed to u.s. sub prime out of the majors
12. harold said...
"Depends on whether your bank goes bust or not........"
Not really, it depends the whether the central banks can successfully create hyperinflation (which is clearly their intention).
"yeah but cash versus house prices in the uk will be fine!!!"
I hope you're right.
13. inbreda said...
""yeah but cash versus house prices in the uk will be fine!!!"
I hope you're right."
I will be rioting on the streets if he isn't!!
14. mark wadsworth said...
HPW, sure, but you always stick it into National Savings & Investments.
15. Sold My Soul To The Never Never Never said...
This is going to be worse than last time because so many more people have jumped into it thinking property was a one way bet. We didn't have all these property programmes trying to brainwash you - on TV virtually every day and interest rates were not driven so low in order to seduce you into the market.
16. sid public said...
Are house prices gonna crash?
Is cash king?
For the first time in my life I'm actually glad I own neither.
Pay off all debts and make yourself as employable as possible and by any means necessary is probably the reality.
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