19:30 Today
BBC1
Real Story with Fiona Bruce
With houses costing more than many first-time buyers can afford, Fiona Bruce investigates new solutions that could provide a way into the property market

Duration: 30mins

Any solution, will only prop up the overheatd housing market and make the bubble even bigger.
I think its going to be a loadf of c**p.
Probably another irresponsible proiperty program.

LOL average house 20x estate agent wage. hahahah

She needs shooting! This program is outrageous! IT is appalling.

Where's that complaints form!

Thats where we have all got it wrong... we are all just too picky. Im off to buy in Stoke and commute 8 hours a day.

Real Story with Fiona Bruce....





WHAT A LOAD OF B0ll0CKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You not fancy one of those crates at 100,000?

Wheres the bearish aspect! Even estate agents are focked by this market! This would be seriously depressing stuff if I didn't know any better.

Well it convinced me.

I’m off out to find a friend, add my parents income to the mortgage and buy somewhere off plans in Spain.

I can’t lose.

As for the Wicked Witch of the South selling mortgages – I’m in love.

what a ***** government -

remember hes calling an election tomorrow. what sh1t.

THE MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS WOULD TAKE UP HIS ENTIRE MONTHLY WAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This womans on cloud nine. What a stupid stupid cow.

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hee, hee, excuse the pun

That estage agent advising that a house will double in price needs to be shot point blank!
Outrageous that someone can be allowed to say that on prime time TV.

hehe "at this price, it will double in a couple of years!"

She wants shooting.

What a crock of shit!!!!!

I am furious.

..what utter $hite

She can not tell people this kind of information surely. Does that means she will be liable when the market collapses and all the first time buyers are left in negative equity?

This program was a complete disgrace. The title says its an estate agent view vs the ecomist view. Where was the economist view?? It seemed to be some estate agent speaking cowpat boasting up an even bigger bubble to burst.

I reckon we should all put complaints in. At least give a negative view that the market is reaching boiling pint!

Del.

Jesus..... What a load of crap... Should this program have been aired on the 1st or something... (APRIL fool) and has been postponed because of the pope!!!..

Ive never heard so much sh1t in my life!!!!

LOL!!!!

"At this price you'll double your money in no time"

Get her sectioned lol.

Dames

Can I volunteer to shoot her first?

Cloud nine? more like Cloud cuckoo land

Where was the balance to this programme? Who was the devils advocate? Total propaganda. Wheres the BBC complaint website?

I reckon we'll have to form an orderly queue.


BTW like your sig Flick. One of my favourite quotes as well.

Sorry, I can see this subject has been covered elsewhere. I am however, frankly furious about the advice given on this programme and the lack of an alternative view. I will (for the first time) be writing to the BBC to complain. Anyone else who feels the same, please post your letter and any response on this thread. I will do so when it is composed.

Was that programme real, or just another Chris Morris sketch??

I can get a £200k mortgage?? free money !!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint.shtml

If you watched this programme and found it horrendous in terms of trying to catch the last few remaining gullibles out there, please complain to the BBC, if they get a load of people complaining about having to listen to more vested interest rubbish they might think twice about such blatantly biased reporting next time....

Well my complaint has been sent already...especially since the 'estate agent expert' looked like the devil and I am going to suffer nightmares for weeks....

EA Women: "this 90k house will double in value in a very short space of time"!!!!

WTF?!!! She was kidding right?!!

That programme was exactly the sort of trash you'd expect the BBC to come up with; "everythings great, house prices wont crash, Labour have re-written the history/rules of economics and ended boom-bust cycles" etc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

That was a dangerous show. My head almost exploded after just the first 5 minutes. My wife grew concerned and insisted I treat it as a comedy.

ahh my first post,
ive nothing to say other than ********, even that womans smarmy face annoyed the hell out of me let alone when she spoke. Well done BBC

Of all the property programmes I've watched in the last couple of years that was the most terrifying. Does anyone know who this Barbara Goldmsith is? The advice she ws giving to ftbs was scandalous. The problem is that she is, I presume, not accountable to anyone - and she has probably pocketed a fat fee for appearing on the show while her "victims" are likely to see their hard-earned money disappear down the s***hole. Truly disgusting.......

Where the hell was the economist to counter the daft bitch's views ? scrubbed off the end by a BTL producer probably ??

Outragous !

Here is a link to the BBC Complaints page...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint.shtml

Interesting head to head read between this Barbara women and someone who actually knows what he is talking about

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4398027.stm

At least we've got Sarah to look forward to tomorrow night. Should tell a different story...

This was very irresponsible TV making. It depressed the hell out of me. Imagine how other FTBers felt watching that and taking it as fact. Interesting to see that the FTBers featured didn't think the props was worth that money either. Although it did say the young couple bought somewhere in the end. Me thinks they will sell up once they realise the huge mistake they have taken on. Why didn't anyone advise them to rent if they were so desperate to get out of their parents home? At least to save more of a deposit.
The worst advice I have ever heard. All the big no-no's rolled into one.

What a completely shocking waste of the license fee!

I can't believe that she said that the 92k house in Yorkshire will "double in value very shortly"....it's utterly scandalous....I mean it's like putting smallpox in the water!

Where was the economist chap featured in the BBC article??

I have submitted a strongly worded complaint to the BBC.

The program was so bad that it can only help to put off the FTB's IMO.
It just backed up the fact that its almost impossible for the average FTB to scrape together enough for anything but the most undesirable housing in the country.
I think the BBC actually did us a favour showing that.

Barbara Goldsmith - MBA, CeFA, CeMap, Cergi
Managing Director, Stratford Properties
http://www.propertyinvestor.co.uk/seminar01_orig.asp

Barbara GoldsmithThe BBC's expert

Spot the difference:


Barbara Goldsmith:



Be'elzebub, Lord of Darkness, Satan, King Of Evil (right):

OMG - have just made my first official compalint to the BBC.

Always found the grumblers who wrote to points of view quite funny - but this is the first time i've been incensed to join in!!!

angry, of portsmouth.

Spend 100k, have a lifetime of exhorbitant repayments, just don't be too picky about what you buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DISGUSTING!

It was so bad, even the most stupid of FTBs must have been questioning the advice. Unbelievable.

posted my complain.
Asked if BBC would take financial responsibility of any first time buyer who will fall into financial trouble because of this irresponsible program.

PS (liked the way he could grow his £70k morgage to £180k because his parents put their house on the line-now they can both lose their houses ;-p)

Sensible complaint sent.

Do you want to make money while you sleep?[QUOTE]

Barbara Goldsmith is the managing Director....

http://www.stratfordproperties.com/seminars.htm

I liked the part where she said that once FTBers move into a dodgy area they will boost the area and the litter will somehow magically disappear, everyone will look after the area and the heroine junkies will turn into brownie guides (okay I made up the last bit).

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/printFri...8-13652,00.html