TheCountOfNowhere Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Just saw an advert for it. Threw up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venger Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 This? Swallow it down hpc softheart excusers. It's a market, not a multi-decade game of excuses and awarding victimhood for buyers who choose to outbid others by fortunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starla Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 For more info, it's Monday 1st December @ 20.00. "House prices are rocketing across the UK, with huge consequences for people buying and selling their homes. But who are the winners and losers in the British property boom?" At least the tag line isn't advertising entirely how wonderful this is. I'll reserve judgement until tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Hmm by identifying the boom - does this mean this is the bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 This? Swallow it down hpc softheart excusers. It's a market, not a multi-decade game of excuses and awarding victimhood for buyers who choose to outbid others by fortunes. Another 'shoeshine boy' moment perhaps? A classic indication of a market top about to occur? Always seems to me that by the time programme makers get to making progs about some social topic they are usually late to the party..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Chinese pai gow gamblers strongly in evidence. The global debt racket begins and ends with the oxymoron that's Chinese State Capitalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Pound_Property_Experiment "Million Pound Property Experiment was a television series in 2003–2004 which aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in which designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan bought, renovated and re-sold properties for a profit. This, as they gambled with a £100,000 loan from the BBC, with the ultimate goal being a sale of a property for £1 million." The whole hting should have collapsed in 2005, the natural peak, but they kept it going, ponzi-style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) Just saw an advert for it. Threw up. The ads have been on for a few days. One I saw had the boss saying "There is NO NEGOTIATING on price, ever", or something like that. The sales team, no doubt hungry to pay their own mortgage, looked caught between ruthlessness and creeping fear, a difficult emotional place to be I assume. This will be car crash awful IMO, laughable and anger inducing as well. I can visualise some of their viewings; "We don`t negotiate on the price....ever."...."Bye".... I am guessing many EA`s don`t throw up much these days, they are too hungry Edited November 30, 2014 by dances with sheeple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie_George Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Pound_Property_Experiment "Million Pound Property Experiment was a television series in 2003–2004 which aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in which designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan bought, renovated and re-sold properties for a profit. This, as they gambled with a £100,000 loan from the BBC, with the ultimate goal being a sale of a property for £1 million." The whole hting should have collapsed in 2005, the natural peak, but they kept it going, ponzi-style. Is this the basis of the BBC's VI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 IMO the bbc`s VI is just protecting the status quo, keeping control (they don`t have this power any more IMO, but don`t seem to have cottoned on yet, they will just beam out the message hoping that enough people tow the line) Many did what was expected and borrowed to the max for property, that this is good will be upheld by the bbc until it all just collapses, then they will try to appear "horrified". It is all just bad mind-control panto really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliegog Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I suppose it is 'that London' market (aka property boom) again - wish they would call it what it is. will watch it just to shout at the TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Pound_Property_Experiment "Million Pound Property Experiment was a television series in 20032004 which aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in which designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan bought, renovated and re-sold properties for a profit. This, as they gambled with a £100,000 loan from the BBC, with the ultimate goal being a sale of a property for £1 million." The whole hting should have collapsed in 2005, the natural peak, but they kept it going, ponzi-style. I thought this was a sham, with lots of unaccounted for cash, fees etc, and arbitrary upgrades from property to property, without the net profits from the previous one being sufficient for it to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkins Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Hmm by identifying the boom - does this mean this is the bottom? We will know we're at the bottom when the Express is saying it's a bad time to buy a house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renting til I die Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Hmm by identifying the boom - does this mean this is the bottom? Its always a buy when you are a bull! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renting til I die Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) We will know we're at the bottom when the Express is saying it's a bad time to buy a house. That will be one sign. Also having in-laws telling you what a burden their mortgage is and how they should have never taken in so much debt. Edited November 30, 2014 by renting til I die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renting til I die Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Just saw an advert for it. Threw up. I saw it advertised the other day. Set up the box to record, so I don't have to remember to watch it and can fast forward through 90% of the rubbish that I know it will be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I thought this was a sham, with lots of unaccounted for cash, fees etc, and arbitrary upgrades from property to property, without the net profits from the previous one being sufficient for it to work There is a lot of competition - however that programme was up there at the top. Just completely made up fiction from start to finish. Buy for 100k , do up , sell for 130k , 10k profit = buy next one for 200k.... Something missing there - but can't quite put my finger on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolly Roger Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Shame Adam Curtis hasn't done one of his 90 minute documentaries on the property boom with the trademark stock footage and eclectic soundtrack. A slow motion zoom into Krusty's laughing face, set against Brian Eno could really work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Shame Adam Curtis hasn't done one of his 90 minute documentaries on the property boom with the trademark stock footage and eclectic soundtrack. A slow motion zoom into Krusty's laughing face, set against Brian Eno could really work. Maybe, having made his name and fortune in making those various well known 'conspiracy theory'/alternate viewpoint modern social history documentaries, he himself is also mortgaged up to his eyeballs???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long time lurking Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) The ads have been on for a few days. One I saw had the boss saying "There is NO NEGOTIATING on price, ever", or something like that. The sales team, no doubt hungry to pay their own mortgage, looked caught between ruthlessness and creeping fear, a difficult emotional place to be I assume. This will be car crash awful IMO, laughable and anger inducing as well. I can visualise some of their viewings; "We don`t negotiate on the price....ever."...."Bye".... I am guessing many EA`s don`t throw up much these days, they are too hungry Well looking at the drop in volume of sales this year around my neck of the woods( lower than 08/09/10) they will be negotiating hard next year or eating jam whilst claiming JSA Check out the volumes in your area with the MAP function (top middle of the page) on Evictes (from on here) site https://houseprices.io/ Edited November 30, 2014 by long time lurking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blod Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Tonight's Dispatches investigates the consequences of rapid house price rises, for buyers and sellers, and asks how 2014's property boom will change the face of our towns and cities. Am hoping that they highlight the destruction high housing costs are having on the country's economy. Thanks mods for merging this. Edited December 1, 2014 by Blod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M21er Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Reminder. Tonight 8pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I am hoping the boom will soon be "KABOOM" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkins Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I predict the conclusion of the programme will be "high house prices are bad but they're at a permanently high plateau so get used to it plebs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Well looking at the drop in volume of sales this year around my neck of the woods( lower than 08/09/10) they will be negotiating hard next year or eating jam whilst claiming JSA Check out the volumes in your area with the MAP function (top middle of the page) on Evictes (from on here) site https://houseprices.io/ Just had jam with rice pudding actually, pretty tasty, wouldn`t be so hot without the rice though, and with the JSA Will use the volumes thing, cheers. It`s England and Wales only unfortunately Edited December 1, 2014 by dances with sheeple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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