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At the same time, annual house price inflation continued its downward = trend,=20 sinking to 3.4 per cent, its lowest level since December 2005. =
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Miles Shipside, commercial director of Rightmove, said: =E2=80=9CSome = homebuyers are=20 now able to find properties that have fallen into their affordability = zone, and=20 are bagging what they see as bargains against previous prices.
=E2=80=9CSome properties have had their prices dropped by 10 per cent = or more and are=20 now within reach, satisfying some of the pent-up demand from previous=20 disenfranchised buyers.=E2=80=9D
The amount of time a property remains on the market came down = slightly this=20 month to 95 days, down from a peak of 98 days in December.
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Salaries are not rising catching up = if prices=20 just stabilise. If the main driver of rises was easy money, and this = came from=20 growing income multiples, and these are being slashed, how will prices = remain=20 stable? All these limits were reached before the crunch, A fixed rate = mortgage=20 of any high street lender is currently higher than it was in August. As=20 affordability has been stretched since 2006, and they are saying actual = prices=20 have not fallen, I would like to know who the bargain hunters are. =
Prices=20 are falling BUT I hope none feel confident that you will be buying at = low risk=20 based on Rightmove numbers. If a house was worth 200k in Jan 2007 and = the=20 Rightmove asking price fell from say 280k to 250k for the same house = between Oct=20 and Dec, that is still overvalued i.e. a price increase of 25% (from = 200k to=20 250k). 8% being the long-run average price growth should not provide = comfort.=20 This is based on many decades of very high inflation i.e. from the 1950s = to the=20 1980s. Infl is lower.
Raj, London,
Interesting how the annual house = price=20 inflation is now 3.4% What it fails to say is that it is on a rolling = year=20 basis, which effectively means in 4 months time, look for more like = house prices=20 fell 10% in the last year.
Too much "good news" from governments = across=20 the world has pulled the wool over most people eyes for over 10 years. = Only now=20 are we seeing the results of vast monetary inflation across the globe; = food=20 prices, energy prices, all going up....reflecting the printing of vast = amounts=20 of money for many years rather than anything to do with droubts, = political=20 tensions or anything else. This has been the fuel for the credit boom, = resulting=20 in overly inflating house prices, massive public debt.
It's been = a=20 coiling spring for a long time, now it's reached it peak.
The = end of the=20 economic world is nye.
John, Manchester,
In a falling market the proverb is = "Never=20 catch a falling knife" Anyone buying in this market is overly optimistic = and=20 could find themselves cut to shreds.
Paul Davis, York, uk
Your headline doesn't fit the = article.=20
The only evidence in the story of increased activity is the = length of=20 time Righmove say houses are listed, but what percentage of houses = removed were=20 taken off the market by frustrated sellers rather than being sold? =
A=20 better headline would have been "House Price Slide Continues".
Tony Gould, St Albans, UK
there had been a = =C3=A2=E2=82=AC=C5=93marked increase=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=C2=9D in ....=20 *prices* immediately after the new year as a result of *lower prices* = and=20 falling interest rates. ...
Clear as mud!
Ben, London,
george mann, northumberland. Is this = because=20 you like tormenting estate agents (has some merit) or because you = foolishly=20 believe that the market will rebound? It won't! I saw this in the 1990s. = Seller=20 rejects a call to reduce price by 10%. Other similar properties come = onto the=20 market at 15% cheaper, seller has to reduce price by 20% to undercut and = so goes=20 the downward spiral until those sellers who hang on in there the longest = end up=20 losing the most.
Clive, Chichester, UK
Whom are you kidding?? Reignited = house=20 prices..indeed!!! It is downhill all the way for the next 3 years. No = money old=20 chaps- either with banks or with punters.
Kara Swart, London, UK
I've had many estate agents calling = me,=20 begging me to reduce the price. I won't.
george mann, northumberland,
I've reduced the price of my house = twice in=20 trying to sell it... no one wants to get into huge debt to buy, and, I = can't=20 really blame them.
Ian Sankey, London,