Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008
Hurtling into a crash
Guardian: Squeeze, crunch, crisis - next stop crash
"The fact is we are no longer in a downturn, we are hurtling into a crash."
Posted by letthemfall @ 09:25 AM (1210 views) Add Comment
13 Comments
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1. flintster1994 said...
The tide has really turned. An incredibly bearish article from mainstream media. These articles and lenders house price predictions are getting more bearish by the day.
If HBOS now predict a 9% fall in house prices by year end, then surely they will not give a mortgage now above a 90% LTV. If later on this year they predict a further 10% fall for next year then surely they they will not give a mortgage above 80% LTV, and the whole thing could just snowball!
2. japanese uncle said...
My prediction ie 25% drop from the peak by the end of March/09 still stands, which is becoming more and more realistic, laughably.
3. flintster1994 said...
Is it possible that we could eventually have an LTV of 75% as the norm again?
4. mark wadsworth said...
They can delete the words 'hurtling into' from that snippet and replace it with 'in'!
5. geed said...
This article is succinct and to the point. Nice.
6. Stevie Dee said...
I've heard C S Lewis has renamed her book "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" to "The Landlord the Estate Agent and the Sh!thole".
I think the time has now come to satirize the situation, I think the HPC should provide a page for such entertainment.
Or
What do you call a divorced couple living in negative equity together? Have not thought of an answer for that... any suggestions?
7. hpwatcher said...
it's just great to see the word ''CRASH'' used more and more........LOL
8. Yokel said...
Why is the news of a 15.3% fall in prices bad news for US homebuyers?
9. Yokel said...
"OK, so it was an all-time record decline, which signals further misery for thousands of US homebuyers"
Why?
10. doomwatch said...
Is is too early to start predicting the Nationwide MoM drop to come out on Monday ? I reakon maybe 2.75% ? However, as nothing is selling the "sample" will be a mess and
produce a spurious number this time round ?
11. Kirstygee said...
C.S. Lewis is a man - users of this forum get enough critcism for being stupid.
12. uncle tom said...
"Is it possible that we could eventually have an LTV of 75% as the norm again?"
It's fast becoming the norm at the moment, if you want a competitive mortgage rate, but historically (going back 30+ years) the near universal criteria from the building societies were as follows:
Maximum LTV, new houses - 95%
Maximum LTV, other houses - 90%
Maximum loan - 2.5x first salary plus 1 x second salary
(although not all building societies would allow a mortgage to be in joint names, or take account of the second income)
13. paranoia blue said...
Re: 11. Kirstygee. Thanks.
However, C.S. Lewis WAS a great man, with a great analytical mind. I just wish that he were still alive today to make some cerebral comment, rather than the “day-to-day tosh” that we are subjected to in the media, etc. in these recent times.
ATB