Zenify wrote: » What do people think is a possible range for property to fall?
KilOit wrote: » Whole thread is full of salty begrudges without their own home and landlords trying to reassure themselves that prices won't fall. Truth is no one knows what will happen, i personally think prices will fall but they may well stay around similar prices they are now. I bought in 2018 and i think i paid too much, lucky we had a huge deposit so chances of negative equity is practically zero unless the world ends and we buy goods with bottle caps
landofthetree wrote: » Davy stockbrokers are saying 20%.https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/new-house-prices-could-fall-by-up-to-20pc-amid-coronavirus-uncertainty-report-39071128.html
This is according to a report from Davy Stockbrokers, which suggests the financial markets have priced in a decline of 15-20pc in the value of homes.
Graham wrote: » Are they?
Graham wrote: » +1 My faith in the ability of the financial markets to predict much would rank on a par with a boards survey thread.
handlemaster wrote: » And dont forget the odd ones boasting about having huge deposits
IvoryTower wrote: » I'm terrible at saving, drank and ate most of my money away for the last 20 years, but I finally have a deposit saved But it looks like the world is going to end so I prob should have kept drinking
pearcider wrote: » Try several years. The West has responded to their already bankrupt financial institutions with even more debt. Guess what. The answer to being in too much debt is not to take out another loan. The best case scenario we can hope for is that the west goes Japanese ie a long decline with debt to gdp hitting 200% and then the inevitable default and liquidation. Property bulls should note that Japanese property prices peaked in 1989 and have still not recovered. However I don’t think we will be that lucky. Japan’s society is significantly more resilient and unified than that of Europe or the US. The average Japanese person has huge savings and they don’t use credit cards. Most people in the west have huge debts most of which is collateralized with depreciating assets like vehicles and property.
voluntary wrote: » Would median not exclude half of the population from your equation? Something is hardly affordable if half of the society cannot afford it.
Mad_maxx wrote: » why do people point to japan as some sort of lesson , that ( 1980,s bubble ) was the biggest asset bubble in history , a complete anomaly
kevinc565 wrote: » you mentioned 3,5 and median salaries. I'm just saying most buyers are couples ( whether or not that's good is a separate story) ...and that therefore if the price is less than 7 times median income its affordable by your measure
bubblypop wrote: » handlemaster wrote: » And dont forget the odd ones boasting about having huge deposits Who is boasting? Some peoole saved & worked hard to get a deposit together. What's your issue?
ittakestwo wrote: » Was it the vendor or the EA who said that? If it was vendor well fair enough. You dont know who you are dealing with when buying/selling. They could be a complete ostrich with their head in the sand. But if it was an EA who said that I would be annoyed. They are actually insulting your intelligence if they expect you to believe that.
Claw Hammer wrote: » Plenty will be booted out. In 3 months there will be a new negative equity generation. There will be receivers appointed to the properties of defaulting landlords. There will be numerous unravelled PIAs. The churn will be massive. tax Revenues will have fallen of a cliff and there will be massive new government debt. If and when the IMF comes back, there will be no more Mister Nice Guy.
Ursabear wrote: » If the average salary is about 39 k per year that would be 273k if you multiply it by 7, so most houses in the suburbs are out of reach for most couples at the moment. eg . https://www.thejournal.ie/article.php?id=4677090 This David McWilliams article suggests "Maybe 30 per cent of all Irish women between the age of 35-39, are single." "Today 39.8 per cent of men between these ages are single. That’s nearly four in 10 men – more than the number of single women. In total, 145,507 people between the ages of 35 and 39 are single. That’s around 76,000 men and 69,000 women." SO I think we need to think about how single people are living going forward too, and many of these are single parents or would like to be. I think a lot of people choose not to be because their acomadation situation is too precarious.http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/the-rise-of-the-singleton-has-transformed-ireland/
kevinc565 wrote: » So that's the national average right? So at the moment on myhome.ie there are 717 properties throughout the country for less than €275k Should there be more? Yes. Should there be more in Dublin . Yes. But there are house's out there. What's the dublin median salary? As i alluded to, whether one should be priced out of the market by virtue of being single is a question that needs answering.
Ursabear wrote: » I'd love to know how many of these are within a reasonable commutable distance on public transport to major cities eg Cork and Dublin and don't need a lot of work (finance)put into them? I'd be interested in finding out the median salary for Dublin myself but for what we are discussing we probably need to know the median salary of a couple looking to buy in Dublin and then comparing the prices of the houses in the suburbs within commuting distance to Dublin.
kevinc565 wrote: » ireland doesn't really have major cities though does it?
bubblypop wrote: » Who is boasting? Some peoole saved & worked hard to get a deposit together. What's your issue?