Monday, Oct 27, 2008

House price "downturn" gathers momentum in October

Independent: House prices fall to two-and-a-half-year low

Hometrack, which monitors the UK housing market, says that the fall in house prices increased faster in October, than in either August or September, adding that the supply of new homes coming to the market has also dried up.

Posted by matt_the_hat @ 07:14 AM (390 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. mark wadsworth said...

I like the way they are using Fionnula's time machine.

Prices back to about 2002 levels is my forecast.

Monday, October 27, 2008 07:45AM Report Comment
 

2. Fjcruiser said...

agreed,at just about 4x income or slightly under, which is the long term average and sustainable level to achieve stability.

Monday, October 27, 2008 09:20AM Report Comment
 

3. str 2007 said...

Yep

I think I'd be reasonably happy with that Mark.

Hopefully they'll also be offering 2% mortgage rates fixed for 15 years by then aswell.

We can but dream

Funny really, when I first read your comment I though - 2002, we can do better than that surely but looking at the the Nationwide figures that is back to average houses being £110k in mid 2002. It shows how much they've gone up because 2002 isn't that long ago really.

(I believe the Nikkei hit a new low back 24 years today/yesterday).

Monday, October 27, 2008 09:26AM Report Comment
 

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