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Forum: The Barbie
Jul 14th 2008, 11:53 am
Replies: 2,355
Views: 142,496
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller (The Continuation)

Property nearing once-in-100-year slump

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24012370-5015810,00.html



Maybe everyone should be sending some karma to the Aussie sellers, too?
Forum: Spain
Jul 8th 2008, 12:44 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Found out about an incredibly powerful tool that tracks every single change an estate agent makes to any house listed on the UK property portal rightmove. See http://www.property-bee.com/
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 30th 2008, 10:47 am
Replies: 2,355
Views: 142,496
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller (The Continuation)

Exactly. My guess is that the winners will be people who take a small hit now (relative to the massive, massive gains they have made over the past few years), rent in Aus for a couple of years, then...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 30th 2008, 9:31 am
Replies: 2,355
Views: 142,496
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller (The Continuation)

:rofl: That was one of the arguments used to justify the massive UK bubble.

Aussie management advisor discusses credit crunch, etc. - and the impact on US, UK & Aussie house prices:...
Forum: Spain
Apr 21st 2008, 10:18 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

There is an awesome Firefox plugin that tracks Rightmove price changes called 'Property Bee' that can be downloaded here: http://www.property-tools.co.uk
Forum: Spain
Apr 21st 2008, 10:15 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Yes, thank you very much for your original post - I ended up doing a lot of my own research and realised that it's best to wait many years before even thinking about it.

It's interesting to see...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 13th 2008, 5:57 pm
Replies: 16,131
Views: 509,098
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller

Just found out about a really useful Firefox plugin, Property Bee, which can be found at: http://www.property-tools.co.uk

You can keep tabs on all the houses in your area, and see by how much...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 9th 2008, 8:27 pm
Replies: 16,131
Views: 509,098
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller

Maybe somebody doing the following:
Forum: Spain
Apr 4th 2008, 7:23 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Article in the Telegraph (by the Europhobe Ambrose Evans-Pritchard): Foreign banks flee Spanish property debt (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/04/cnspain104.xml)
Forum: Spain
Mar 28th 2008, 8:42 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

I don't know. Some towns may well do slightly better than others, and some countries may fare relatively well. Perhaps the best way to judge for yourself would be to rent in Mallorca for 6 months and...
Forum: Spain
Mar 28th 2008, 8:33 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

From the article:



The old demand myth perpetuated by estate agents worldwide.

The demand for Bugattis amongst 15 year old boys is extremely high; this doesn't matter a fig because banks...
Forum: Spain
Mar 24th 2008, 6:48 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

With phrases like 'Do you know how safe is there' & 'I bought the house in Spain' & 'you want it or not' you are clearly not British. A Spanish Estate Agent perchance?
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 14th 2008, 9:49 pm
Replies: 16,131
Views: 509,098
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Whinging Pom House seller

There's always a chance this US Federal Reserve Economist's model may be correct: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2005/847/ifdp847.pdf (page 46).
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 10th 2008, 9:48 am
Replies: 469
Views: 35,926
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: who else is waiting to sell there house....

Anyone selling now will be fine, if they take a small hit. It's people who hold on for many years expecting an imminent upturn that will be in serious negative equity. Most people have made hundreds...
Forum: The Barbie
Mar 10th 2008, 9:08 am
Replies: 469
Views: 35,926
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: who else is waiting to sell there house....

I agree that we are entering a long, steep, decline in UK house prices, but disagree that house prices will recover in another decade. As wealth moves to Asia, and the UK's terrible demographics have...
Forum: Spain
Nov 21st 2007, 5:40 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

[QUOTE=tim hortons man;5562866]
The question is do we have a "recession" where thing get rough before picking back up again or a Japan where house prices dropped as much as 70% and then went no...
Forum: Spain
Oct 26th 2007, 8:39 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Good article in the Telegraph about the bankers' credit crunch:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/business/ambrosevanspritchard/oct07/skyhasfallen.htm

The bankers' schemes, where they package up...
Forum: Spain
Oct 7th 2007, 4:21 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Here's an example of a Florida developer dropping their price by 50% in just a couple of months:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10WoQZKZkNs
Forum: Spain
Oct 7th 2007, 2:01 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

It doesn't matter that much to many builders if they sell at lower prices. Breeze blocks, cheap labour and land acquired cheap with dodgy deals mean that they just make e.g. 50% profit instead of...
Forum: Spain
Oct 5th 2007, 2:11 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The credit crunch and the drying up of the market for Mortgage Backed Securities means that the next decade in Western property markets will be...
Forum: Spain
Oct 5th 2007, 1:40 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Nah. Even more dangerous:

FT Article: Britain faces its own housing risk (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0ecb34d0-72a8-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html)

70 minute video discussion on what is happening in...
Forum: Spain
Jun 17th 2007, 8:38 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Buying a house is very easy. Selling may not be.
Forum: Spain
Jun 7th 2007, 9:20 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

There's a 'Spanish Property Insight' spokesman in this Trevor McDonald "House prices pain in Spain" video shown & discussed on burbuja:

http://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/showthread.php?t=31954
Forum: Spain
Nov 14th 2006, 9:22 pm
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Stagflation, 70s style. The ECB looks to be attempting to beat stagflation by monetary tightening, Helicopter Ben seems to be going for increasing the money supply and monetising the US' huge debt.
...
Forum: Spain
Nov 14th 2006, 11:45 am
Replies: 1,346
Views: 148,014
Posted By thinking_about_it

Re: Don´t buy property in Spain or you will lose a lot of money

Wish I could predict the future of a market with 100% certainty. As it's for sure, I presume you will be cleaning up by offering Spanish house owners an insurance hedge against a crash? :rolleyes:
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