really depressing article in the sunday times -- despite curent market conditions there are still 22 people looking for every 1 biggish country house coming to the market

[Tutter]

they featured a family wanting to move HERE - exactly where we're looking

they have given up

what's the price range? loony squillions??

insane

please explain how this is depressing.

I read this too and thought oh diddums

gosh so many threads to hide today

ok

Can you try the link again Tutter?

Take no notice of them - I'll sympathise if you like.

one couple had £2M to spend and couldn't find anything

I couldn't sleep, I tell you

heart breaking

Just cos it ain't your price range, doesn't mean they like having nowhere to live.

here

they have somewhere to live, they are renting iirc

Yes but renting isn't as nice as being in your own home that you can decorate the way you like etc.

let me break out the violins.

where are these people looking, in our local property magazine last week there were plenty of country properies for sale!

yeah, so, it's a roof over your head, foofi.

and yes, i am a private renter in a rural area who will be served an eviction order by my landlord upon his return because it is the ONLY way we can get anywhere on the social housing list - we cannot afford to purchase our own home.

in Cambridge btw

Keep looking Tutter - something will come up. just keep to your list of priorities and be prepared to compromise...oh and take no notice of jealous people

ha, I am not jealous, just fail to see the need for sympathy for someone that can't buy a house for £2M

it is hardly doom and gloom territory is it?

and I heart Tutter so hopefully she will return to the thread

By the way - I had my home repossessed last year and I am in rented accomodation - but certainly dont tie myself up in knots over those less fortunate. Good luck to you Tutter if you are doing well I say - my position is down to me not you or anyone else.

I suppose i could blame the government instead of getting up off my fat arse and doing something about it, but moaning and bitching on here seems easier....

Sorry - MORE fortunate...

i'm with you, OO.

i don't see how this is a depressing scenario.

no one has to live in the countryside.

could it be that T means it is depressing as it indicates the property market is overheated generally and the crash isn't happening in Tutter's area?

why not just address posties personally, MoreSpam, rather than beating around the bush. it's not big or clever.

the papers are still trying to talk the market up when it is in reality dead in teh water but at that end of the market who knows? I do know that our local paper a few weeks ago said good quality family houses in good locations would always sell at a premium yet in the roads adjacent to ds's school where last year there were waiting lists for every property that came on now there are 100+ lovely houses for sale and it has been this way for months.

Well personally I don't care. As long as they aren't looking to move into my house! That is, the house that I have fallen in love with and that I am going to have one day. If 22 people are trying to buy my biggish country house I will personally smack them on the nose

Why would anyone wish a housing crash, though?

Those are never good because they always go hand and hand with a lot of other unpleasantness like high unemployment and inflation.