yellerkat Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I don't fancy standing in front of a camera, I don't think I would do a good job. Me neither! BTW, Bonetts is offering _free_ HIPS if your house doesn't sell. How long that lasts remains to be seen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigsrenting Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Just been looking at rightmove Hove area, 1590 for sale but that includes sstc, a few garages, beach huts and many with multiple agents, so maybe it should stand at 1200. The top end are not moving and not reducing. I like to use Poets Corner as a good measure of the market. During the summer of 2005 when it was at a stand still, properties in PC would still go very quick. The top end price for that area then was about 250K. Roll forward two years and some have been asking up to 380K. I have recently noticed quite a glut of them up for sale. Asking prices now are from 350K for the slightly larger ones around Stoneham down to 272K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equitystasher Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 Looking at Rightmove there are a couple of houses that are asking lower prices but these seem to be the ones that have just come onto the market. Maybe the EA's have started talking the market down to new vendors? A house has come on in the same road as a house I viewed in April. The house is almost identical and in slightly better condition and they are asking £15,000 less than the price achieved by the hhe house viewed in. The vast majority of vendors are sittng and waiting perhaps praying for a interest rate cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I am in Brighton and it is a bloody nightmare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I am in Brighton and it is a bloody nightmare! The market here at the moment looks as if it'll have to be dragged kicking & screaming to Beachy Head and booted off. But it can't exist in glorious isolation much longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CviewUK Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 The Argus haters will just love the post today by adibrown on this thread: http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=60097 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 The Argus haters will just love the post today by adibrown on this thread:http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...showtopic=60097 WOW I can't believe I missed that! Thanks, CViewUK! BWUHAHAHAHAHA! PS Not like I hate the Argus - I just despise it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhpc Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I saw a report on BBC News' South Today programme yesterday evening about the collapse in the Brighton BTL market. You'll have to forgive my memory on it as I was a little worse the wear for the Apricot Liquor but the jist of it was as follows: It was unreservedly bearish, no bullish counterbalance to it - the reporter interviewed an EA who said the BTL market in Brighton had completely and utterly dried up. The report finished up with a few words from a vicar or some kind of charity group that was talking about their provision for temporary shelter for the hard-up / homeless. I don't think they exactly spelt it out explicitly, but the link between bankrupt BTL'ers and this homeless shelter made it quite obvious. Incredible. I can't find the video or even any mention of it on the South Today website, but it really made my day. The presenter, Jo Kent was grinning from ear to ear after the report was shown - I suspect she's part of the 'lost generation' that have been screwed over by BTL'ers and the housing bubble. Viva la crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CviewUK Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Stay away from Apricot Liquor http://www.stpatrickstrust.org/what_we_do/case_study_1.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/poli...how/7103634.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 (edited) I think THIS may be a link but it seems to be some bloke from Politics Today talking about housing in Reading. ED: Aaaargh! Just seen the pinned thread on the main forum. Must get up from desk and exercise more! Edited November 26, 2007 by yellerKat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhpc Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 No I wasn't so off my face on Shinruchuu yesterday that I didn't know what I was watching. Cheers for the link to that Politics Show thread - I always miss those stickied threads. It seems that South Today have chopped up part of The Politics Show item on Brighton BTLs for their news item yesterday evening. Ah, from nine minutes in. They only used the ultra-bearish parts though, no mention of the softly-spoken EA bloke hoping for interest rate cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Viewed a maisonette last week in Brighton which had originally been 279950 and down to 269 so we thought we'd view it as its in our preferred area but it wasn't for us at all.Agent rang yesterday and said it has been reduced to 245 if that would sway our decision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drrayjo Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Viewed a maisonette last week in Brighton which had originally been 279950 and down to 269 so we thought we'd view it as its in our preferred area but it wasn't for us at all.Agent rang yesterday and said it has been reduced to 245 if that would sway our decision New build or is the last purchase price on Land Registry (OurProperty)? If so do you know what it was and when? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Not a new build first floor victorian conversion Will check if I can find last selling price brb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigsrenting Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Viewed a maisonette last week in Brighton which had originally been 279950 and down to 269 so we thought we'd view it as its in our preferred area but it wasn't for us at all.Agent rang yesterday and said it has been reduced to 245 if that would sway our decision I wonder how many will start dropping to below stamp duty range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Not on there so must be pre 2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drrayjo Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Not on there so must be pre 2000 Any neighbouring/nearby properties on there post 2000? Just wondering what kind of handle can be got on whether this is a 'kite flying' asking price being reduced or a real local slump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Well there are 6 properties on there all houses and none this year.No flats at all.I know a house was for sale on the same road for 525 which came down eventually to 485 but didn't sell and was let for 1300pcm.I went to a house sale in that house in the summer and the owners were going to australia but couldn't sell it I have noticed a few drops in prices but more than that agents are ringing me every day trying to get me to view things but still no price drops which I consider significant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drrayjo Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Well there are 6 properties on there all houses and none this year.No flats at all.I know a house was for sale on the same road for 525 which came down eventually to 485 but didn't sell and was let for 1300pcm.I went to a house sale in that house in the summer and the owners were going to australia but couldn't sell it I have noticed a few drops in prices but more than that agents are ringing me every day trying to get me to view things but still no price drops which I consider significant Interesting. I left Brighton in 2000 so am intrigued to see "what I could have won"(/lost). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CviewUK Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 A sign of things to come? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigsrenting Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 A sign of things to come?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=002 So we've got 5 days to get our bids in. After careful consideration I think I will go in at 99p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crown Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 So we've got 5 days to get our bids in. After careful consideration I think I will go in at 99p. BIT TOPPY THAT!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellerkat Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Not quite dead in BN2 yet! This through the letterbox 5 minutes ago: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equitystasher Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 Still not seeing much in regards to price moves.The odd house discounted but nothing significant as yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatnow? Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I recieved a text today URGENT! house with 3 beds and conservatory for sale 250k.I rang back to ask where and the guy said the house had fallen through as the buyers had changed their mind and that the price was actually 250-275000 and they vendors wouldn't accept anything less than high end offers as when it was on before they ahd 6 offers.So why did they ring me and not those 6 previous buyers?It is also on the edge of a big council estate and is no way worth the £ Don't these people read the news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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