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Is this the start of 7 years of woe?

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    Is this the start of 7 years of woe?

    Will HIP do for this house price boom what tax relief did for last?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7147674.stm

    So the HIP thing caused more houses to go on market and prices to drop.

    In 1989 same thing happened - due to mortgague tax relief ending. Ironically the cahancellor had to give lenders several months notice to give them time to update their software.

    Is this the start of 7 years of woe?

    #2
    Coincidence - but people might not care and will associate a straw that breaks camels' back, rather than huge load that they put before.

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      #3
      HIPs have caused an upset in the market - much more supply means a lot longer to sell you property. There is no doubt about it.

      Whether it's a catalyst for a big plunge a la the end of MIRAS is debateable.
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #4
        Lack of credit and seriously hit expectations is what really matters to the market, HIPs are just the excuse that real estates use - no wonder, they would not want to say that property is overvalued, would they?

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          #5
          Having just had an offer accepted on a hoose, the HIP was entirely surplus to requirements. No one is seriously going to base their buying decision on an energy performance certificate last seen on the front of a fridge freezer and you need to do all your own searches anyway.

          Mind you, I got 10% off the asking price so that should cover me for a year or two - hopefully!!!

          Older and ...well, just older!!

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            #6
            I see an intellectual thread like this gets few postings - unlike TPD which gets innundated!

            I uppose its the way teenagers are these days...

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              #7
              The premise of the article appears to be that people were willing to accept a drop of several thousand pounds in the sale price of their house in order to save the few hundred a HIP would cost.

              Repeat after me, everybody: correlation does not imply causation.

              As AtW says, it's just a coincidence.

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                #8
                Aw! Little Monkey!!

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                  #9
                  I really can't see why a few hundred quid has panicked people into selling their houses quickly. How utterly stupid is that?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                    The premise of the article appears to be that people were willing to accept a drop of several thousand pounds in the sale price of their house in order to save the few hundred a HIP would cost.

                    Repeat after me, everybody: correlation does not imply causation.

                    As AtW says, it's just a coincidence.
                    Agh beaten to it! And put much better than my argument too!

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