Comments on: Predictions for the housing market in 2009 http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/022009/predictions-for-the-housing-market-in-2009.html Welcome to The Thrifty Scot financial help site. Look through our credit cards, loans, mortgages, savings and insurance sections Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Monevator http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/022009/predictions-for-the-housing-market-in-2009.html/comment-page-1/#comment-4107 Monevator Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:34:28 +0000 http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/?p=3792#comment-4107 The UK housing market has always been hard to call as it zigs and zags between euphoria and despair, and it isn't getting any easier. On the one hand 3% fixed rate mortgages are available, making even pricey properties affordable. On the other hand, is house price growth - or even an arrest in the decline - really compatible with 2 million unemployed? I think not. The UK housing market has always been hard to call as it zigs and zags between euphoria and despair, and it isn’t getting any easier.

On the one hand 3% fixed rate mortgages are available, making even pricey properties affordable.

On the other hand, is house price growth – or even an arrest in the decline – really compatible with 2 million unemployed? I think not.

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