Re: And they say the property market is falling ?
- From: "john jardine" <john.jardine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:16:50 +0100
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:30:16 -0700, John Larkinmessage
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:46:49 +0100, "john jardine"
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:53:28 +0100, "john jardine"
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This one's on sale just about 50 yards from me.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-17369749.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy
That's a MILLION dollars !
Graham
The South sneezes and us oop North catch flu. This one was £3 million
priceSadly twas an untruth on my part. Just a wry comment on the pricingmonths ago :)
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-14697977.rsp?pa_n=19&tr_t=buy
Egad, dropped by a factor of six?
Around here, houses go for 300-500 k$ per bedroom, with very little
land, so that's not a bad deal at all.
John
differentials across the UK.
Like for like, properties in St Albans, Harpenden etc can take a 600%
premium compared to those further North.
So a S.F. 3 bedroom could run to $1.5e6. Jeez, that's almost London
pricing!.
You can get a dumpy fixer-upper in a bad neighborhood for less, maybe
$200K per bedroom. A few years ago, word got around that San Francisco
was cheap by world standards (Moscow, London, Seoul, Tokyo) and that
condos here would be a good investment. So there are cranes everywhere
you look, building tens of thousands of ugly high-rise condos. They're
all rushing to get to market now, probably anticipating a bust like in
Florida. I can't imagine where all the jobs could come from to fill
them.
The commercial market boomed amazingly in the mid-late 90's, and
crashed with the dot.com bust. It's just now recovering. We bought our
workplace, a former fortune-cookie factory, just about at the bottom.
I know too many people who bought their houses at the peak.
Something weird is going on economically that I don't understand. I
think maybe there's too much money around but not enough good ways to
invest it.
John
I have been watching that for at least 20 years. I knew that dot.com
would dot.bomb. I just guessed a little early on the timing by about
a year.
When the housing market in Sacramento was starting to climb i knew it
would be a bubble, because a huge increase in supply was about to hit
the market. Then all the funny loans started to appear and i knew
speculators were driving it and did not know any of the basics of real
estate investing. "Just jump on the bandwagon while the jumping looks
good." Far more liquid money than brains. I was only about 2 months
off on the beginning of the flat spot and the real start of the
downturn. I underestimated how badly the funny loans would amplify it
and how thoroughly it would be reflected all across America. Once it
got steep i could foresee the foreclosures, and that my house would be
someday soon worth what i bought it for.
I am starting to look for where new investing is occurring before the
prices change much. It is very difficult for me to find so far.
Same here. I've had about 20 years (intense :) watching mainly due to
gambling on the UK stock markets. In the early years it was relatively easy
to spot winners, as anyone with a technical background could see that good
hardware from real manufacturers, e.g. home computers and cell phones, would
make good money for early investors. Based on this I'd also piled heavily
into telecomms long before the dot.com bubble started up and watched
entranced as my nett worth multiplied 15 times over a 5 month period. Sheer
unadulterated greed caused me to crash and burn during the 48 hours it took
for the bubble to burst. (no complaints, it's the fun of the gamble :)
Moral of the story is that there'd have been no bubble if biblical amounts
of loose money in the hands of incompetent fund managers and banks had not
been swilling about the system. Prepare for more bubbles to come.
UK wise there is now little actual manufacturing left. Maybe it's time to
get out of 'engineering/electricals/aerospace' and move into property
speculation. We've only little land available, a ballooning population, s**t
scared banks and a depressed housing market. A good window to get in before
Gov.uk props up their friends in the money markets.
.
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