"We were happy to sell it if it made a huge profit." - OP
I'm not anti-capitalist, but with an entire generation priced out, this attitude strikes me as anti-social.
"Sick of all this house inflation bollocks etc. Not saying it doesn't happen but jeez, it wasn't caused by the OP." - MooMaid
Nobody ever sees themselves as part of the problem.
"Why are 'house price crash' so interested in us?" - Pipbin
It's part of their remit to examine house price insanity. For all its faults – and a laissez-faire attitude to misogyny is one of them – HPC is an equal opportunity critic of the dominant economic memes. It has long been a haven for people who think house prices are far too high, and that this is a bad thing. It is also a fantastically useful site for tearing apart the press releases which pass as journalism.
"i have never been on the HPC forum but i shan't bother given the behaviour of their ambassadors. they seem like those cult leaders who forecast the apocalypse and then have to scrabble about to explain why it didn't happen after the day has passed" - PetulaGordino
I wouldn't consider myself an ambassador, more a dual citizen. Reports of the great house price apocalypse were surely premature. Not many of us were prepared for the lengths to which the government would go to prop up prices.
I can see why HPC can appear like a cult to some, but if this is the Kool-Aid, I'll admit to drinking it [not my post, I mostly lurk]:
"I have been on and off this site for years and don't miss the likes of McTavish and Sibley [two notorious trolls who as it turns out were better prepared]. They viewed us HPC ers as small minded jealous people who simply wanted to gain from other's misfortune (as they would put it). They couldn't see that we were actually arguing against the damage that HPI was causing to the very balance of society as they were happy being the beneficiaries.
No one can argue that society is better off as a result of HPI. The financial crash and consequent fixes have made this country a worse place to live. Instead of competing with each other through endeavour and enterprise we are now a society that seeks to compete through denial and strangulation."