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Free 4Homes Fantasy Property Investor competition

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A free 4Homes Fantasy Property Investor game has been launched by OFL, C4 and Inside Track:
http://4homes.fantasyleague.com/

Using a budget of £2,000,000, select a total of 10 properties:
eight from England and Wales and two from overseas.

Deadline is 00:00 BST on Friday 26 October.
Overall champion will receive a house in Spain worth 165,000 Euro.

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SamD wrote:A free 4Homes Fantasy Property Investor game has been launched by OFL, C4 and Inside Track:
http://4homes.fantasyleague.com/

Using a budget of £2,000,000, select a total of 10 properties:
eight from England and Wales and two from overseas.

Deadline is 00:00 BST on Friday 26 October.
Overall champion will receive a house in Spain worth 165,000 Euro.
The Spanish prize may not be worth anything like that by the end of the comp :lol:

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el_pappje wrote: The Spanish prize may not be worth anything like that by the end of the comp :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I wonder how many people will enter this :?:

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1086 wrote:
el_pappje wrote: The Spanish prize may not be worth anything like that by the end of the comp :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I wonder how many people will enter this :?:
Looks interesting, but a shame about the prize!!

I guess no-one will be buying Spanish for their foreign properties :wink:

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What's the problem with Spanish property? Got one (inherited) and no plans to sell or any wish to sell for profit in the future. Does that mean I'm ok?

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Tricky Tree wrote:What's the problem with Spanish property? Got one (inherited) and no plans to sell or any wish to sell for profit in the future. Does that mean I'm ok?
Have you heard of the spanish property crash :?:

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Not recentlly, heard plenty of talk earlier in the year of over building...well shock horror, I think a 5 year old could tell you problems were around the corner.

In for the long haul, not overly concerned :)

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Signed up - no idea what I'm doing but if I get a good start I'll pay attention!

Mini-league??

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murf wrote:Signed up - no idea what I'm doing but if I get a good start I'll pay attention!
Ditto, didn't go so far as to auto-pick but what I've done is probably no better...
murf wrote:Mini-league??
Might as well, looks like there'll only be 1 or 2 members anyway.

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Tricky Tree wrote:What's the problem with Spanish property? Got one (inherited) and no plans to sell or any wish to sell for profit in the future. Does that mean I'm ok?
You're fine. It's the muppets putting deposite down on swathes of property on various coastlines on the assumption of flipping them for profit later on. Assuming they are built legally as well :wink:

That'll be a free week's stay for the advice, please :lol:

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el_pappje wrote:
Tricky Tree wrote:What's the problem with Spanish property? Got one (inherited) and no plans to sell or any wish to sell for profit in the future. Does that mean I'm ok?
You're fine. It's the muppets putting deposite down on swathes of property on various coastlines on the assumption of flipping them for profit later on. Assuming they are built legally as well :wink:

That'll be a free week's stay for the advice, please :lol:
Or the people laden with negative equity that want to sell :wink:

Allegedly, there is some strange land right in Spain, where the Govt can take some of your land to build on. Can anyone confirm this?

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I think it's called Valencia :wink:

I've seen similar stuff on the box in recent years - to do with town hall grabbing land and uprooting expats. In some cases land has been illegally built on, in others it is legally a bit tenuous I think.

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I have entered.

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Just added John Terraced to the FISO Friends League. Not got a clue what to do here, but the chance to pick up some John Lewis vouchers for the missus could ease the stick I get for playing the other games.

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I'm in there too.

Anyone know how they're calculating the overseas prices? I can't find any reference to it.

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Overseas properties are only subject to news-based fluctuations:

http://4homes.fantasyleague.com/Article.aspx?id=112

Happy property purchasing!

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I am responsible for subsidence issues,

as it were,

auto pick of the portfolio does not seem such a bad option

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Post by DrBunker »

Looks like I was wrong.

The deadline for entry to the comp is midnight tomorrow and we're already got 16 budding Kirstie Allsopps on board. :)

Funny thing is I don't think any of us have a real clue as to what we're doing, should be fun. ;)

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I'm in. :D

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You certainly are, as is the other person who signed up after I last posted.

I was mistaken about none of us knowing what we're doing aparently. I've just noticed Admin has made loads of changes already, he can't seem to settle on which country will do the best :)

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A lucky dip for me.
Looks like it could be fun, will have to take a look at the rules later.

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Post by timmsy »

I've joined or rather I is pending again

And changed my portfolio so many times make me feel good about my fantasy football pre season tinkering :lol:

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I'm in. Haven't got a clue what I'm doing 8-)

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Post by Doogal »

I'm in. Being totally ignorant on price trends I've been very decisive, deliberately done no research and gone with instinct and am not going to tinker. Have started a bit of DIY and set up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme to get the local prices moving.

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tedbull wrote:I'm in there too.

Anyone know how they're calculating the overseas prices? I can't find any reference to it.
Just did a google search - not sure if it helped or not - Argentina is not on option :roll:

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At the deadline an hour ago, there were fewer than 10,000 entrants.

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SamD wrote:At the deadline an hour ago, there were fewer than 10,000 entrants.
Blimey thats a lot more than I woul have thought!

Anyone see the programme on BBC2 last night about property, looks like prices are heading down, but will the average sale price still go up?

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SamD wrote:At the deadline an hour ago, there were fewer than 10,000 entrants.
So we're now 0.23% of the whole game. Looks like are chances have just gone through the roof! :) ;)

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pottster wrote:
SamD wrote:At the deadline an hour ago, there were fewer than 10,000 entrants.
Blimey thats a lot more than I woul have thought!

Anyone see the programme on BBC2 last night about property, looks like prices are heading down, but will the average sale price still go up?
Judging by this house prices can only go up. The problem is people compare us with Germany and France and say the price will have to go down but what they don't take into account is the lack of land we have in comparison.

I heard this morning that if we had the same density of housing as Jersey we'd have room for 150 million more houses.

The other thing is people just look at one area (like the SE) and point out prices are going down there ignoring the fact that the prices are massively inflated there but in other areas prices are only just starting to go up.

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I tried to use a bit of vague logic when picking my properties concerning which areas would go up in value (e.g. not buying in SE). Not sure it worked and maybe I should have spent more than 2 minutes on it.

A little bit of research may also have helped :oops: Would have been a good speculative use of time with less than 10,000 entries......

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