Monday, May 19, 2008
An alternative reality.....
Express: HOUSE PRICES UP £3,000
''...Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, said: “There is no housing crisis. We do not have a credit crisis. If anything, we have only a crisis of confidence. Property in Scotland is selling, as are homes across the UK’s university towns, for example....''
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1. japanese uncle said...
Editor of this second rate tabloid had better see a good psychiatrist as soon as possible. This is simply weird, not funny.
2. Ijjhall said...
Saw the ditzy GMTV 'property expert' Louise somebody or other also talking up Rightmove this morning referring to price increases rather than asking prices no doubt giving the sheeple a spring in their step as they went to work - the propaganda exercise is in full swing and it is blatant.
3. Heh said...
This could easily have appeared in the Dailymash.co.uk, and I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
4. debtfree said...
"We do not have a credit crisis. If anything, we have only a crisis of confidence" - Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents.
What a complete and utter lie. He should go back to selling double glazing door to door.
Taken from The Times this morning : 'The surveyors’ organisation has given warning that sales will drop 40 per cent this year, unless the shortage of mortgages eases.'
So, we don't have a credit crisis, just a crisis of confidence in...... ..... credit maybe ?
5. Adrian said...
Sarah O’Grady strikes again, im sure I have read a few ramping articles from her.
Have your say is unavailable in this article.
What a joke.
6. paul said...
"Daily Express delivery - fresh on your doorstep!"
7. hpwatcher said...
Adolph Hitler once said something about people being more ready to believe a big lie that just a small one.
I think these people are completely in denial.
8. Davros said...
Just more in a series of utterly bizarre articles by the Express.
9. Adarmo said...
Jean Claude Trichet (EU central bank governor) has said there is a big credit and liquidity problem and it shows no signs of abating soon! What qualifications do you need to work at the Daily Express? Maybe he has all his money in property hahaha
10. Deadman said...
'Have your say is unavailable for this article'. No surprises there.
11. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Comical Ali?
12. Benali69 said...
Asking prices . . . . I ask ya!
13. montesquieu said...
The original press release with the latest numbers talks about sellers in denial, saying that 'business as usual' can't continue and that sellers need to readjust their thinking. With one quote from a VI, this gets turned on its head.
But it doesn't matter, the Express is dead in the water anyway, a once-great national institution made irrelevant though bad management - drastic cost-cutting, followed by using it as a cash-cow to milk its dwindling number of readers. Most of Express Newspapers' profit comes from sex industry advertising in the Star these days, which is now no better than the Sport, while the Express is heavily geared towards the over 70s 'I've been buying it all my life' demographic - no other group being remotely interested. It's dying.
The ABC figures show all: it lost 100,000 readers (down to 730,000) between July 2006 and now. This is down from a high of 2.3 million in 1980s, when it outsold the Daily Mail, its old rival, by half a million. The worst decline of any national newspaper.
By comparison, the Mail has been broadly static over the last year at well over 2.4 million. People are voting with their feet (or at least their loose change).
Let's not worry about it, the Express is already a joke amongst its peers and a story like this will cause a lot of amusement when proper journos from real newspapers get in to work this morning.
14. Loneranger said...
'Have your say is unavailable for this article'. What else can one say?????? Utter nonsense.......
15. jack c said...
The key word here is average "asking" prices. Asking prices and selling prices are two different things - typical Express house prices up house prices down headline. I presume the hard copy is found on the same shelf as the Beano and Viz.
16. titaniccaptain said...
Its the pixies that are putting up house prices you fools to store all their magie pixie dust for the summer dance in the fair wood where the wood nymphs and trolls bake cakes for the great wizard called gronwark the great with his hord of pigeons who feed the queen of panjeple toad. You silly lot of course house prices are going up the Pixie prince Timple Pepper has been to the Express to explain all this why is nobody listening?
17. Adrian said...
I emailed the mail and suggested that if they truly believed what they are writing then they should turn the 'have your say' bit on - I know they read the email, because I got a return receipt, but as yet, no reply lol
18. the haunted said...
This is just so stupid its almost funny. Does anyone know if this breaches any journalistic code because it is utter rubbish? I had to look twice to make sure it was not a spoof!
19. the haunted said...
This is just so stupid its almost funny. Does anyone know if this breaches any journalistic code because it is utter rubbish? I had to look twice to make sure it was not a spoof!