Friday, Feb 26, 2010

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Telegraph: House prices to suffer "significant correction" in 2010

House prices are expected to suffer a “significant correction” this year as figures show recent rises are beginning to lose momentum.

Posted by dill @ 11:48 AM (1332 views) Add Comment

11 Comments

1. cornishman said...

A lot of people were expecting a "significant correction" in house prices in 2007, 2008, 2009...

Friday, February 26, 2010 12:30PM Report Comment
 

2. Carol said...

I don't know about where you live, but prices have fallen by about 25K on a £125,000 house in our part of Derbyshire. That seems significant to me.

Friday, February 26, 2010 12:55PM Report Comment
 

3. cyril said...

I've noticed quite a lot of price reductions on primelocation recently.

The estate agent says that the economic recovery seems to be 'dragging', which is a funny turn of phrase. He seems to be expecting a bounce back to pre-crunch levels of activity.

Friday, February 26, 2010 12:57PM Report Comment
 

4. wdbeast said...

"And David Smith, a partner at estate agents Carter Jonas, warned: “There is every chance prices will fall back in the second half of the year"

How does he work that out when prices just fell 1% in February, what a plonker!

Friday, February 26, 2010 01:30PM Report Comment
 

5. need-a-crash said...

@ 1. cornishman

To be fair prices did start falling from the summer of 2007 and we did have a significant correction in 2008. It's just that a sellers strike together with government stimuli on a level never ever seen before in this country's history managed to stop (and partially reverse) this correction in 2009.

Friday, February 26, 2010 02:32PM Report Comment
 

6. timmy t said...

need-a-crash - I kind of agree... We have had a crash, but govt intervention meant it was in every currency except sterling. Once we have had the next leg down we'll have half the country in negative equity AND a currency worth fack all!

Friday, February 26, 2010 03:34PM Report Comment
 

7. taffee said...

we have not had a crash......house prices in japan(the only comparrison to today's scenario) fell for the last 17 years....house prices are based on salarys of people who need housing to live in...investors quickly disappear when assets are falling

Friday, February 26, 2010 05:05PM Report Comment
 

8. smugdog said...

Sales are like wild fires in my back yard. No let up here folks.

Friday, February 26, 2010 07:20PM Report Comment
 

9. dill said...

Scorched earth policy where you are at the moment then, smugdog. Get 'em while you can, eh? Before they get you!

Friday, February 26, 2010 07:27PM Report Comment
 

10. smugdog said...

Perhaps it's not so desirable around your neck of the woods Dilly.
It's positively spring time in my garden.

Friday, February 26, 2010 07:51PM Report Comment
 

11. dill said...

Ah - You're a fan of "The Producers", Smugdoggy.

Friday, February 26, 2010 08:27PM Report Comment
 

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