Money for Nothing and your Cheques for Free...

Ella and James Preece are a Catholic couple living in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire in the UK. This is our blog.

Money for Nothing and your Cheques for Free...

Blogged by James Preece on 10th June 2008

Buying is dead money...

According to the Halifax, house prices fell 2.4% in May.

All the houses around us, the ones with luxuries (we are spoiled brats after all) like windows and floors, cost about Ł125k for your basic 3 bed terrace. This is Hull after all. Down south they are going for more.

By not buying a Ł125k house last month, we saved ourselves nearly Ł3000. Oh sure... we had to pay rent. But we don't pay Ł3000 in rent! Even if we paid Ł1000 a month in rent... and we don't... we saved Ł2000 last month.

Next month, we will save more...

This is not grim news. This is great news.

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Reader Comments

Elizabeth said...

Indeed house prices are too high and need to come down. According to the Economist of april 10th: "The International Monetary Fund reckons that Britain's house prices are almost 30% higher than can be explained by fundamental factors such as disposable income, interest rates and the size of the working-age population." (http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11024646)

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