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Supra prices dropping due to Covid 19


Noz

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I don’t think Supras or similar ages cars fall into the standard used car market. The prices of ‘classic’ cars seems to rest on mileage, originality and condition. Even before Covid, it seems a lot of cars haven’t sold perhaps with unrealistic pricing.

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If this continues and there are many people on short time or laid off, who will have the money to buy cars & Holidays this year?

Their main priority will be finding the money for their outstanding debts & Mortgage payments!

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If this continues and there are many people on short time or laid off, who will have the money to buy cars & Holidays this year?

Their main priority will be finding the money for their outstanding debts & Mortgage payments!

 

Yes I'm still busy and full time at work and I'm not spending much at the moment just incase. I'm sure a lot of people have a similar line of thinking. IMO it's a bit foolish to make any kind of large purchase until all this rubbish is over and done with.

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The things that lead to the huge surge in classic prices across the board remain, and have been exacerbated by this corona virus crisis.

 

Very low interest rates for savers, inflated property prices, turbulent markets, gold (and other precious commodity prices)

 

Classics (some) are desirable, relatively affordable, and a pretty safe place to put your money. Most are still poor 'investments' when costs are taken into account.

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It’s definitely ruff time. I’ve not worked since the lockdown. I’m a self employed network cable installer and all my jobs have ether been put back or completely cancelled . I can’t see any work coming my way anytime soon. So the money I do have will go on bills and mortgage . But I won’t be selling the supra just yet .

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To everyone with a mortgage; have you received any communication from your mortgage lender advising the process to apply for the government backed mortgage holiday?

 

Absolutely not :lol:.. until it becomes the mortgage companies' duty rather than us consumers, we will have to contact the banks

 

I'm not worried yet tho, still working full time on full pay

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Like the virus and it's spread, we're all showing varying degrees of symptoms and we're all on different timelines, lots of us might end up where Sidewaysdan is today in a few weeks or months, unless you are a Director (and even some of them are semi clueless) or the Accountant you don't really know the extent of any cashflow effect on the company and what that means in terms of the time it can survive.

 

Hopefully Dan gets back to work as they lighten the restrictions or an antibody test comes in, and lots of us experience just a small hit and others go through the whole thing unaffected, but I think this has the potential to affect more people negatively financially than any other event in my lifetime, as it's just so global and stifling when we've all come to rely so heavily on imports/exports and the ease of international movement of goods and labour.

 

If anyone has to sell something in the first weeks we're officially allowed to roam again then I can see "what someone's willing to pay" leading the market if fear of unemployment has increased.

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To everyone with a mortgage; have you received any communication from your mortgage lender advising the process to apply for the government backed mortgage holiday?

 

Yup. My bank messaged me. All of the banks I have money with have contacted me and said if I have any problems get in touch. But my mortgage provider updated my banking app to even allow quick application for those who need it. Loans too.

 

Some are more productive than others it seems

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Yup. My bank messaged me. All of the banks I have money with have contacted me and said if I have any problems get in touch. But my mortgage provider updated my banking app to even allow quick application for those who need it. Loans too.

 

Some are more productive than others it seems

 

I too received correspondence from some of the institutions I bank with, but I felt they were only being proactive to protect themselves from overexposure to bad credit, rather than an actual effort to support their customers... aside from the mortgage/loan holiday proposed by the government, the banks appear to have done next to nothing in this crisis.

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The mortgage/loan holiday will simply be added to the amount outstanding.

Are lenders still charging interest during this period?

I wonder how the government is proposing to repay the huge loan they will have taken to pay all this furlough money, tax increases or a higher rate of vat?

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The mortgage/loan holiday will simply be added to the amount outstanding.

Are lenders still charging interest during this period?

I wonder how the government is proposing to repay the huge loan they will have taken to pay all this furlough money, tax increases or a higher rate of vat?

 

A great depression?

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The mortgage/loan holiday will simply be added to the amount outstanding.

Are lenders still charging interest during this period?

I wonder how the government is proposing to repay the huge loan they will have taken to pay all this furlough money, tax increases or a higher rate of vat?

 

On the first point, yes it will continue to accrue interest in the holiday period which will get added to the total mortgage amount. Something worth considering for those thinking about this option but for a lot of people this will be the difference between losing their homes, so a small price to pay in the long run.

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So....How many months or Years will it take for things to normalize... That's if they ever do

Remember ...all of this is floated on a sea of extreme currency printing.

More of the same printing....and after that...what then?

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