House prices and Liz Truss
House prices and Liz Truss
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Simpo Two

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91,611 posts

289 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Avoiding NPE as I'm looking for a factual explanation not a political argument...

A friend of mine who lets out three houses was planning to sell one last year, but decided not to because it had lost 30K in value 'because of Liz Truss'.

Now my take on it is that softening house prices are caused by higher interest rates which were introduced to curb the inflation which resulted from the rise in energy prices which resulted from the war in Ukraine. Liz Truss was a bit of a bull in a china shop but she wasn't in power very long and I thought that was all under the bridge a while back.

Who's right?

Louis Balfour

28,176 posts

246 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Simpo Two said:
Avoiding NPE as I'm looking for a factual explanation not a political argument...

A friend of mine who lets out three houses was planning to sell one last year, but decided not to because it had lost 30K in value 'because of Liz Truss'.

Now my take on it is that softening house prices are caused by higher interest rates which were introduced to curb the inflation which resulted from the rise in energy prices which resulted from the war in Ukraine. Liz Truss was a bit of a bull in a china shop but she wasn't in power very long and I thought that was all under the bridge a while back.

Who's right?
Has Liz Truss moved in next door perhaps?

Silvanus

6,905 posts

47 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Louis Balfour said:
Simpo Two said:
Avoiding NPE as I'm looking for a factual explanation not a political argument...

A friend of mine who lets out three houses was planning to sell one last year, but decided not to because it had lost 30K in value 'because of Liz Truss'.

Now my take on it is that softening house prices are caused by higher interest rates which were introduced to curb the inflation which resulted from the rise in energy prices which resulted from the war in Ukraine. Liz Truss was a bit of a bull in a china shop but she wasn't in power very long and I thought that was all under the bridge a while back.

Who's right?
Has Liz Truss moved in next door perhaps?
Can't be that op said it only lost £30k

Jim on the hill

5,129 posts

214 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Silvanus said:
Louis Balfour said:
Simpo Two said:
Avoiding NPE as I'm looking for a factual explanation not a political argument...

A friend of mine who lets out three houses was planning to sell one last year, but decided not to because it had lost 30K in value 'because of Liz Truss'.

Now my take on it is that softening house prices are caused by higher interest rates which were introduced to curb the inflation which resulted from the rise in energy prices which resulted from the war in Ukraine. Liz Truss was a bit of a bull in a china shop but she wasn't in power very long and I thought that was all under the bridge a while back.

Who's right?
Has Liz Truss moved in next door perhaps?
Can't be that op said it only lost £30k
Maybe it was up North

Silvanus

6,905 posts

47 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Jim on the hill said:
Silvanus said:
Louis Balfour said:
Simpo Two said:
Avoiding NPE as I'm looking for a factual explanation not a political argument...

A friend of mine who lets out three houses was planning to sell one last year, but decided not to because it had lost 30K in value 'because of Liz Truss'.

Now my take on it is that softening house prices are caused by higher interest rates which were introduced to curb the inflation which resulted from the rise in energy prices which resulted from the war in Ukraine. Liz Truss was a bit of a bull in a china shop but she wasn't in power very long and I thought that was all under the bridge a while back.

Who's right?
Has Liz Truss moved in next door perhaps?
Can't be that op said it only lost £30k
Maybe it was up North
Ahh yes, wouldn't fancy having to pay someone to take my house though. Better of staying put.

Simpo Two

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91,611 posts

289 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Jim on the hill said:
Maybe it was up North
Essex, though the cheap end and probably a 2-bed terrace, say £200-250K.

muscatdxb

309 posts

28 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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You are almost correct, apart from the inflation was caused by the money printing and government splurge and supply chain disruption related to Covid. Vlad was used as a convenient scapegoat just as much as Truss.

“She” did spike bond yields for a time but to pin it all on her is a paper thin level of analysis.

g4ry13

20,891 posts

279 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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muscatdxb said:
You are almost correct, apart from the inflation was caused by the money printing and government splurge and supply chain disruption related to Covid. Vlad was used as a convenient scapegoat just as much as Truss.

“She” did spike bond yields for a time but to pin it all on her is a paper thin level of analysis.
Spot on. Putin was a common enemy to pin global inflation which government's lost control of.

Simpo Two

Original Poster:

91,611 posts

289 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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muscatdxb said:
You are almost correct, apart from the inflation was caused by the money printing and government splurge and supply chain disruption related to Covid. Vlad was used as a convenient scapegoat just as much as Truss.

“She” did spike bond yields for a time but to pin it all on her is a paper thin level of analysis.
Thanks, that's what I thought. He's what you might call a 'new socialist' and every time we meet he gets on to how beastly the Tories are. When I likened him to Frank Doberman he calmed down a little hehe