Ricky_FTB

If that was anywhere near where i want to buy, i would buy it! If that was near Ballymena, it would be 100k more

420 for me please

?? Should that not be the other way round? ie in your terms, a house will cost more like 50,000 loaves of bread?

I'll go for 390.

Results delayed until wednesday according to the website.

Almost forgot! I'll go for 390 this week.

I'll go for 385.

I noticed that too! It was huge!

420 for me please.

I'll go for 454.

What will happen to mortgage rates when the BOE base rate goes back up though?

Nearly forget to enter this week! I'll go for 430

The way i look at it is, on Irishhousehunter every week, there are 300-400 odd house price drops across the country compared to about 10 or so (delusional) increases. When the amount of increases out-weighs the decreases then i will start to believe that our house prices are increasing again. The other thing is, there is still feck all selling out there compared to the boom times, so any news of increases is not based on a normal market. A lot of the estate agents in my area of Ballymena have sold literally only a handful of houses in the last year, and with more and more news of job losses, and the impending spending cuts and interest rate rises, i can't see how we are going to get any rising prices in the next while, let alone double digit increases.

I'm using firefox, and the links in you sig open as a new tab no probs.

I'll go for 404

400 for me please.

I'll go for 444 this week.

I'll go for 175

The question was fall from peak though!

Nobody else playing this week? I'll go for another low week - 45 Hopefully next week will see the bigger numbers returning!

Nationwide Q4 Press Release - http://www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/historical/Q4_2009.pdf

Yeah you're right, and i guess that's the sentiment that i have, that once you get married you should own a house. I am starting to wise up though! I think that if we haven't found a house by spring time, we will set a date for the wedding and rent a house if we haven't found one we want to buy before then. (we both still live at home by the way).

Nicely put. Hopefully in the new year more people will let go of the thought of what they could have got for their house 2 or 3 years ago. Maybe encouraged by the stamp duty holiday being over, VAT increase, increasing unemployment, new government, spending cuts...... I really do hope so, because i'm starting to get really impatient and frustrated with the whole thing. My fiancee and i have pretty much put our wedding on hold until we find a house.

This graph tells a tale - The numbers have been in constant decline all year. Hopefully the new year will bring us more reductions.