Sunday, Jul 27, 2008

It's carnage - big falls across the board

Halifax: Quarterly report out now

London down 4.3% on the quarter, 16.1% annualized.
South East down 6.4% QoQ, 23.3% annualized.
East Midlands down 7.2% QoQ, 25.9% annualized.
The North down 9.3% QoQ, 32.4% annualized.
Northern Ireland down 14.6% QoQ, 46.9% annualized.
But hey, the Isle of Man is still rising!

Posted by little professor @ 10:50 PM (1007 views) Add Comment

8 Comments

1. mark wadsworth said...

Wow, I didn't know they did these.

I''m looking forward to the July Haliwide surveys.

Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:25PM Report Comment
 

2. fubar said...

Scotland's immunity seems to be wearing off. Quarterly drop of 4.5% Annual drop of 2.1%

Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:25PM Report Comment
 

3. little professor said...

Clicky map thing if you don't want to go through each regional report to see all the figures:

http://www.hbosplc.com/economy/latestregionalsummary.asp

Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:32PM Report Comment
 

4. drewster said...

Isle of Man isn't correlated with the rest of the UK. They have their own government and their own taxes. Their chancellor is running a budget surplus (whereas the UK has a huge deficit). They have no capital gains tax, no stamp duty, and a top rate of income tax of just 18%.

On the negative side, they face the same credit crunch as the rest of the world, and a relatively high dependence on financial services. If the Isle of Man has to return to a life of agriculture and fishing then house prices are bound to fall significantly!

Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:38PM Report Comment
 

5. Maihem said...

Does "annualized"[sic] mean "change in monthly mean over one year" or is it a special word meaning "using clever maths to deceive"?

Monday, July 28, 2008 02:36AM Report Comment
 

6. Ah-so said...

I noticed that the average annual earnings for Greater London in 2007 was £49,728 (full-time adult males). Despite all those earning very large salaries in London, I am still surprised by how high this figure is, as it is a decent white collar wage.

Monday, July 28, 2008 09:01AM Report Comment
 

7. paul said...

"I noticed that the average annual earnings for Greater London in 2007 was £49,728 (full-time adult males) I am still surprised by how high this figure is, as it is a decent white collar wage."

Eh? Ahhh:

"Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: Full-time males on adult rates, who have been in the same job for more than a year. Mean annual average earnings."

So what they do is they remove:

Women
Part time workers
People in their job less than a year
Then average out over the entire career of the remaining sample

Wow, that's a selective statistic, and is as such meaningless for the pruposes of what they are trying to show.

Monday, July 28, 2008 11:39AM Report Comment
 

8. doomwatch said...

Maihem,

Annualised (not with a zed, as we're not dumb yanks)

is simply a period value multiplied by the number of period in a year

Annual percentage rate

Monday, July 28, 2008 12:22PM Report Comment
 

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