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Warning over home repossessions

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    Warning over home repossessions

    Home repossessions could become more common if UK interest rates rise this year [ooops, like they just did 10 minutes ago], the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned.

    Mortgage repayments are now a bigger burden than at any time since 1991, RICS said.

    For a two-person household on average incomes, home loan repayments now take up 22% of take-home pay.

    Many experts are expecting the Bank of England to raise the cost of borrowing again in the next few months [shortly to be amended to read, "last few minutes"].

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6248899.stm

    We're doomed / boomed / whatever
    I'm Spartacus.

    #2
    Get your fighting funds ready to move in come the crash. We're all going to be millionaires by the end of the next cycle.
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

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      #3
      I told ya....I told ya. The crash a commeth.

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        #4
        Just a shame Gordo pulled the plug at the last minute on allowing you to use your pension fund to buy property.
        I'm Spartacus.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Sockpuppet
          I told ya....I told ya. The crash a commeth.
          I'd like it to hold off for another one to two years yet but within the lifetime of the current government. The carnage amongst the hard of thinking will be so much greater and should keep the socialists out of power for another generation. Keep your powder dry.

          The permie next to me has just said he absolutely has to buy into property now rates have risen as he doesn't want to miss the boat.
          I'm Spartacus.

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            #6
            What pisses me off is that rates go up for loans already made, it should be something along the lines of all new loans will go up by this rate... or something like that.

            I am sure there are many reasons NOT to do the above but I dont care as my rate went up

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mervalous
              What pisses me off is that rates go up for loans already made, it should be something along the lines of all new loans will go up by this rate... or something like that.

              I am sure there are many reasons NOT to do the above but I dont care as my rate went up
              Do you expect them to lend to you at a loss?
              The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

              But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mervalous
                What pisses me off is that rates go up for loans already made, it should be something along the lines of all new loans will go up by this rate... or something like that.

                I am sure there are many reasons NOT to do the above but I dont care as my rate went up
                Take out a fixed rate loan then, numpty. You do understand what "variable rate" means don't you?
                I'm Spartacus.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Spartacus
                  The permie next to me has just said he absolutely has to buy into property now rates have risen as he doesn't want to miss the boat.
                  ... and to think, people like that have the vote... (sighs)

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by wendigo100
                    ... and to think, people like that have the vote... (sighs)
                    It's numpties like him that will inflate the bubble to catastrophic proportions leaving the likes of those on here with some nous to clean up nicely afterwards. Needless to say I congratulated him on his foresight and encouraged him to take out the biggest mortgage he could afford as he was guaranteed to see impressive capital growth.
                    I'm Spartacus.

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