TV Property shows

There may be TV programmes in Albania, Africa, Russia, Iran, etc. with people dreaming of coming to the UK!

ROFLOL!!! No doubt with 'How To' Guides voiced by Government Ministers.

ridiculously

There may be TV programmes in Albania, Africa, Russia, Iran, etc. with people dreaming of coming to the UK!

In message , John Smith writes

If you look into the prices, I am sure you would find that the programmes were made a year or two ago.

I saw one a couple of weeks ago and with the credits was a statement saying that prices were based on exchange rates in July 2002.

I also recall one sometime early last year which prompted me to get onto the internet and find the developments in the show, and buy one, or some.

Prices were actually double those quoted in the show!!

Not really anything to do with the thrust of your post, other than the perception that properties are tuppence, (what a quaint old word )

Lots of the adding value to your house programs are fairly current though and are probably contributing to silly price increases.

Also tv property developing - property auctions etc. theres just loads of it. That million pound house challenge was quite mad to watch.

I seem to recall at the height of the share boom that you could not watch TV without switching on some programme or other about share prices, share clubs, etc. TV is actually a good indicator of when an economic 'boom' has come to an end or is about to. By the time the TV luvvies have cottoned onto something and get round to making programmes on it then it is surely too late.

I find it quite funny that for the last 2 years all these home make-over shows have been telling everyone to pain everything beige... now they are going into homes and telling people that beige is awful and go back to the loud purples, greens, reds, etc.

Apparently, in my home city of Swansea house prices rose an average 36% last year - no doubt buoyed on by the local paper seemingly running a story each week quoting some local estate agent saying how fast house prices were rising and how they would keep going up and up.

J.

ridiculously

They're called "Who wants to be an Asylum Seeker" !

The only reason I'm sat here in front of my computer reading your post is that my wife in watching one of these crappy programmes now.

I hope property prices crash soon, I'll be worth less but it'll be well worth it just to get all these shitty programmes off the TV.

In message , John Smith writes

It has got bugger all to do with what any estate agent, or group of estate agents may say - they, (we ), are one of the least trusted sectors of society, (aren't we?), so why should people all of a sudden believe us, without question, when we tell them that house prices are rising quickly.

The fact is that it is all to do with supply, demand and current/perceived future "cost of ownership".

In my patch there is nothing for sale, lots of buyers, so prices are increasing. If, all of a sudden, everyone decided to sell their homes, demand would be satisfied at a stroke, lots of houses would be left for sale, and prices would plummet. These are the extremes, but it is how it works.

LOL - but then all the 'Share Club' programmes would make a return in 2 or 3 years.... Aslong as you buy your shares in beige! ;-)

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Or possibly "I'm an Asylum Seeker, Get Me Out of Here"!

Pete

Or gold.

FoFP

Debt management/how-to-bankruptcy shows, anyone?

I'd expect some service to that market. However, these game show types tend towards the positive and don't sell well on the doom'n'gloom front

- just look at the way viewing numbers for CNBC ("Bubblevision") dropped in the US after the tech bubble burst. I doubt there'll be "Who's the Most Bankrupt?" gameshows.

It's typical that at the peaks of bubbles, there's lots of media interest. There were newsletters both for and against tulip speculation during the tulip bubble (and even one epic poem on the evils of tulip speculation was distributed). The coffee shops famously had their pamphlets during the South Seas Bubble. Radio shows concerning stocks were popular in the latter half of the 1920's in the US. Once the revulsion stage is reached however, public interest and the media involvement serving it, usually vanishes as fast as the riches.

What's popular after a bubble bursts is usually anything that gets people's minds away from everyday life. Not only will we see the back of Get Rich Quick shows, but I'd bet that Reality TV will vanish with it. On current form I suspect that Fantasy stories and movies are in for a boom, and that westerns, musicals and historical romances will also make a comeback. As far as TV goes, a reduction in consumerism means I'd bet on a boom in gardening, cooking and DIY programmes. They're cheap to make and they involve people doing stuff at home instead of going out to buy things.

FoFP

No, no, no ! That's when people traditionally switch to escapism & comfort TV and try to become at one with the environment and say (without a hint of irony) that family is more important that wealth......

It's all happened before and it'll happen again.

Daytona

Indeed. Mr. Howard must be happy though: people flirt with left politics during bubbles when they feel rich enough to be generous, but shift back to conservative politics when things go south. I wonder what'll happen with music? Out with the half-naked teenage nymphets singing rubbish and back to the good old values of drugs and rock'n'roll?

FoFP

Must be something to do with supply and demand!

You're such a romantic!

anyone for an ostrich farm?

tim