Timberrrrrrrr

Is that definitely true?? Very interesting if it is....

Does it help if people click on the link search result from Google? FWIW - It's on results p27 if you search for house price

top link mog - that site will come in v. handy

Well my complaints in: "I found your programme on First Time Buyers trying to get on the property ladder an absolute disgrace. The advice offered from the so called property expert was frankly baffling - to tell some FTBs that a property will "easily double in no time" is grossly irresponsible. Anybody who has shown any interest in the housing market in the last 6 months will be aware prices having been flat or falling at best with the outlook uncertain. To broadcast this kind of nonsense to the masses without even offering an alternative viewpoint was rather biased and poor programming. Thank God most people will have been watching Coronation Street. " I wonder if Madame Leather Face is friends with Phil and Kirsty?

MT - I was asking this yesterday. You deserve a gold star for your efforts!! Thanks

I think it was mentioned on here awhile ago that generally the UK rates are a couple points above the US rates. Does anyone have a nice graph that shows the relationship between the US and UK rates over the last 15 years say? Or have I got to get off my fat @ss and get on Google and open Excel?

Interesting article about property scams in the torygraph Serves 'em glad IMHO... just plain greed - a classic symptom of the bubble Best bit is the picture of 'Arfur Daley'

Rather bored on a Sunday afternoon and just read an article in the Independent" about a service called AQA - Any question answered, so the obvious question I thought to ask - "Will UK house prices crash as in 1989, if so when?" The reply read: "Many market commentators say that the housing market is slowing down, but a crash on the same scale as the one in the 1990's is unlikely." Bah - what do they know! I was tempted to reply but at a quid a go it could get expensive! You can get one 1 free question if you go to their site, if anyone wants to ask them why they think their won't be a crash - go on someone please!

It only a matter of time before they have to rename some of the graphs - GRAPH 2: National Demand Index will soon become GRAPH 2: National Supply Index I wondered who you'd get through to if you phoned the mobile phone number in the report for Mr Wiggleyworm?

Yeah I was quite surprised by Miles Shipside - his comments were in line with the tone from the last rightmove report... he's almost regaining some credibility.

Dogbox's result

Thanks giraffe_cat - getting sorely tempted to short B&B given their results and their exposure to BTL.

Does anyone know what price Bradford & Bingley are available to short at? What time periods are available are they generally just 12 months? Thanks (Sorry - I've not got around to opening IGindex account yet... )

Ok all you budding artists/graph lovers. I've been interested in a chart that came from the NIESR awhile back. I thought I'd have a bit of fun an extrapolate it (using no scientific methods whatsoever) just to get an idea of how the various different scenarios would look. Here's the original : houseaveorig.bmp Here is what my feeble art skills produced: houseave1.bmp And here is my attempt at a GSD houseGSD.bmp Surely there must be someone on here with the requisite skills to do better??? houseaveorig.bmp houseave1.bmp houseGSD.bmp

Hello I was wondering if anybody had any nice long term graphs showing the demand index (a la the ones shown in the Hometrack reports). The ones within the reports only go back 12 months, I've tried piecing one together using old reports, but they seem to get rebased quite frequently which makes it difficult to get a long term picture. My plan is to compare this graph with house price averages over the same period. Thanks

BayAreaBear - splendid post. Ignore the idiots. Now where did I put that advert for bullion....

Hello, I'm a newbie hear but have been lurking on here and TMF for a long time now. The reason I couldn't lurk any longer is because I just had to see if anyone had an answer for the below. I agree that the 'National Demand Index' is a good indicator of where things are likely to go, so after reading this month Hometrack report I thought I'd have a look at an old one so chose July at random..... http://www.hometrack.co.uk/index.cfm?useac...sitem&newsid=82 Can anyone tell me why the scale on the y axis changes so dramatically? It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the report.... Little help?? Ps - wish I'd have chosen a more sensible username - when i logged in i couldn't remember how many r's i put on