Merryn Somerset Webb, MoneyWeek editor, on UK house prices

[15peter2015peter20]

The best case scenario would be a threesome with Merryn Somerset Webb and Stephanie Flanders...

[helimeal]

nah, Sarah Beeny & Kirsty Allsopp....if you please

[15peter2015peter20]

No way, not Kirsty Allsopp. Her sister Sophie, yes. But Kirsty's got a moustache.

Merryn, Beeny and SOPHIE Allsopp in a foursome, now you're talking...

[OlogyCoaching]

Scary..

[PortalooSunset]

does anyone not believe now that the UK is heading for a colossal house price collapse? We've had all the classic bubble signs. Shortage of supply because we're an island? People used the same argument in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and they all had house price crashes.

Anyone still believe that isn't where we are headed now?

[soviet3001]

God I love her. Intellectually, sexually, financially.

The perfect woman.

[janco333]

Agreed

[helimeal]

Plus 1

[mwmolloy]

@soviet3001

she is lovely....

[fingerhorn4]

"Respected Nationwide?" Respected by whom? This is the bank that threatened Money Week and requested it to close down its useful house price calculator so consumers could see for themselves the folly of believing houses "only ever go up".

[watchurback17]

Umm, I think you might be thinking of This Is Money being threatened by the Council Of Mortgage Lenders over its House Price Crash Calculator. They were using Nationwide's data though; that might be what you are thinking of.

[fingerhorn4]

I stand corrected. Yes I meant Council of mortgage Lenders. Apologies to nationwide.

[sonakoya2001]

let the crash commence ... : )

[salahuddin786]

The best case scenario is that prices will be 0% as stated by the respected Nationwide - but if fails to say that this is the BEST case scenario.

The fact is that wages and inflation is such that properties prices HAVE to and MUST fall to realistic levels as the market has no option and this can be exacerbated by the global credit crunch ....