From: "pencil" 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: Is the house price crash underway ?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:32:25 GMT


"Roland Watson"  wrote in message 
news:d8ovd6$e5f$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Half the properties in Edinburgh for sale are now at fixed price. 
> Prices
> down 1.3% on the last quarter which I think is a first in nearly 30 
> years.
> Smell the fear ....
>
> Glad I bought in 1997.
>
> Roland.
>

Even gladder I bought in 1992, for a song, in a semi-rural area that's 
seen prices (and new developments i'm happy/sorry to say) rocket - the 
house next door is up for 4 1/2 times as much as I paid and on a 20yr 
mortgage too. Only 7 years left of my sentence to serve.