goldbug9999 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Front page City AM "discounts as large as 38 per cent in a sign that wealthy foreign investors are scrambling to desert the scheme" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 A four bedroom townhouse on the site was listed in July last year for £6m, but was reduced to £4m in January – a decline of 38 per cent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I do like the euphemisms - 'loosening' in the market. 'Softening' is the more usual one. Hardly anyone can bring themselves to use Plain English - Prices Are Coming Down. Maybe they're superstitious about it - if you actually utter the dreaded words, doom will descend - it'll happen more and faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shindigger Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Flaccid London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckin2up2down Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 London would have to be down 70% to make any sense. 38% off something just takes it back to 2014. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I expect it's just the market realigning. If HTB is 40%, then non-HTB comes back into line by losing 38%. Yes of course that's tongue-in-cheek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katchytitle Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 So from April 6th 2016 - Government will provide people with a 5% deposit 40% of a loan on new builds up to 600K in London (less elsewhere). Doesn't sound like prices will fall if that happens. We need an almighty reset of the system to do that, and those resets almost invariably come with wars, martial law and panic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maynardgravy Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 My accountant mate was telling the truth then His wife is gonna be so mad with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maynardgravy Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 So from April 6th 2016 - Government will provide people with a 5% deposit 40% of a loan on new builds up to 600K in London (less elsewhere). Doesn't sound like prices will fall if that happens. We need an almighty reset of the system to do that, and those resets almost invariably come with wars, martial law and panic. There must surely come a point when all but the most stupid see through this ponzi-product for what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Flaccid London. Putrid more likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 London would have to be down 70% to make any sense. 38% off something just takes it back to 2014. Patience grasshopper. All the good things come those who wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 (edited) Reality starting to emerge in Loncutta - or Lonbabwe as it's often flippantly referred to around the world. Edited March 4, 2016 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madcrash Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 So from April 6th 2016 - Government will provide people with a 5% deposit 40% of a loan on new builds up to 600K in London (less elsewhere). Doesn't sound like prices will fall if that happens. We need an almighty reset of the system to do that, and those resets almost invariably come with wars, martial law and panic. Hopefully not that dramatic, I'd frankly prefer higher house prices to blood in the streets. Lenders will become twitchy in a rapidly falling market, even with 40% help to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Hopefully not that dramatic, I'd frankly prefer higher house prices to blood in the streets. Lenders will become twitchy in a rapidly falling market, even with 40% help to buy. Well.....that rather depends on whose blood it is really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Common sense prevailing maybe rather than "tulip mania." Conned into paying premium prices, for what was brownfield shithole part of London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyboy1973 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I do like the euphemisms - 'loosening' in the market. 'Softening' is the more usual one. Hardly anyone can bring themselves to use Plain English - Prices Are Coming Down. Maybe they're superstitious about it - if you actually utter the dreaded words, doom will descend - it'll happen more and faster. I can think of some things that might be "loosening" on this news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repetitive bleats Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I can think of some things that might be "loosening" on this news. Creating more brownfield sites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Lenders will become twitchy in a rapidly falling market, even with 40% help to buy. Exactly... I want lenders to be in full-on ultraspasms and I want their recent borrowers to be ******** their *****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop321 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I do like the euphemisms - 'loosening' in the market. 'Softening' is the more usual one. Hardly anyone can bring themselves to use Plain English - Prices Are Coming Down. Maybe they're superstitious about it - if you actually utter the dreaded words, doom will descend - it'll happen more and faster. You are so right and hands up I am guilty of this myself. For me, (no defence by the way) it is because I never believe the rise is real in the first place so neither is the fall. The rise is just a bunch of daft speculators buying at prices no-one understands, then followed by the numb nuts who believe the price. Therefore the 'softening' ? is really the price they always were. So thanks for highlighting, I will be mindful of that expression moving forward because without the context above it lessens the reality of the fall. So for balance I believe London will FALL, DROP or PLUMMET (yes, not soften). The last few years rise in London has never felt more like a stock market.....and the foreign and remote investors will leave as fast as they came and the 118'ers will lose out if they can't sell. Prime London will always be 'expensive' but this market is way way beyond that. Expensive prime parts of Yorkshire (my area) are unachievable for many but nowhere near London levels (based on average local earnings). Foreign buyers and leveraged BTL'ers have driven London to levels which would be laughable if it weren't so sad for the locals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Front page City AM "discounts as large as 38 per cent in a sign that wealthy foreign investors are scrambling to desert the scheme" I like your style dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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