The people who sold-to-rent (STR) have a vested interest in talking down the property market in the hope that a property crash occurs so that they can buy a property on the cheap from a poor distressed home owner who is forced to sell because they lost their job and cannot keep up with their mortgage payments with the intention of then waiting for the next property boom and sell the property for an absurdly high price to some gullible and naive buyer who is being ripped off and thereby make a significant amount of money.

The STRs claim that a property crash is coming but they are very mistaken and every day that goes by without even the slightest sign a crash occurring only undermines their case. Many predicted that a crash would happen years ago but house prices have only continued to rise and anybody taking the STRs advice to sell their property will have certainly lost out on some spectacular rises in house prices. The STR scaremongers have cried wolf so often in predicting an imminent property crash and their predictions have been proved wrong time and time again that they are starting to look ridiculous and foolish and are no longer believed.

The STRs argue that the gap between property prices and wages is now so vast that some correction in house prices must inevitably occur. However, this ignores the most powerful dynamic of all - supply and demand. House building is currently performing at about half that would be required to stave off further astronomic price rises. House prices continue to defy gravity and confound predictions of a slowdown. The housing market continues to hold up because of current economic conditions, notably high employment levels and low mortgage rates. There is a high level of consumer confidence that house prices will rise strongly over the next few years. Conditions in the housing market and the economy are different now to those of the late 80s and early 90s. The boom and bust of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s have been succeeded by a more stable housing market in which high house prices are more sustainable than they were in the past. Economy stability, benign inflation environment, historically low interest rates and record number of people in work all means that demand for houses will remain strong.

Some STRs say that they want house prices to fall to sensible levels so that they can buy a property at a reasonable price and claim that they are not interested in making money from any future rises in house prices but this is complete nonsense because the STRs always view property as an investment and would never entertain the idea of buying a property unless they thought they can make a substantial profit by selling the property for a much higher price in the future.

The STRs seem to think that a property crash will occur over-night that will cause house prices to crash back to sensible levels but this is very wishful thinking because it will take many years to bring house prices back to normal levels. The STRs wrongly assume that a crash will somehow make property cheap but they are very mistaken because property will still remain expensive even in the event of a crash and the STRs will find themselves very disappointed by the scale of falls in house prices during a crash. There will have to be at least a 20% reduction in house prices just in order for the STRs to break even when buying a property to cover the transaction costs involved like stamp duty, estate agent and solicitors fees.

The STRs are getting itchy feet and are fed up of renting and cannot wait to get back onto the property ladder. It is somewhat strange that the STRs are so keen to get back onto the property ladder when they were so keen to get off the property ladder in the first place. It is best for all concerned that house prices remain high for the foreseeable future in order that the STR suffer the stigma and humiliation of living in rented accommodation forever as punishment for having sold their home at a ridiculously high price to some over-stretched and gullible buyer.

The STRs claim that there are vested interests trying to talk up house prices and yet the STRs are not exactly free of vested interests themselves because they want a property crash to occur so that they can buy a property at a low price with the intention of selling the property for a much higher price and make a substantial profit in the next property boom. The trouble is that the STRs don't know what trigger will cause a property crash, when the property crash will happen, by how much house prices will fall, when the trough in house prices will be reached, how long property prices will remain languishing at the bottom and worse still they do not know when the next boom in house prices will begin.

The STRs fail to appreciate the fact that it is only a severe recession that causes house prices to crash. The current economic and housing boom started in 1996 and has now lasted ten years which means that there will be a long and deep recession lasting about ten years in order to unwind and roll back all the excesses and distortions of the current boom and return the economy back to the normal state it was in prior to the boom having started. It is only until the recession has managed to completely unwind the boom such that the economy is purged of all the inflationary excesses of the boom will the economy then be in a state where a new boom can take place causing house prices to rise.

There is little point in the STRs waiting for a property crash to buy property because there is unlikely to be another house price boom for at least ten years which means that even if a property crash does occur it won't necessarily make it a good time to buy property since house prices will be falling or languishing at the bottom for ten years whilst the economy is in recession and there is little advantage in buying a property that will not be appreciating in value for many years until the next economic boom begins in ten years time. Buying a property that is not appreciating in value is simply wasting money and the value of the property will not be appreciating to keep up with inflation which means that the value of the property is being continually eroded away by inflation.

It is the STR speculators who take the most interest as to what is happening to the housing market rather than first time buyers who in many cases have given up any hope of getting onto the property ladder in their lifetime. The STRs are continually posting negative reports about the housing market on various internet chat forums in a desperate attempt to talk down house prices and are clutching at straws in using the slightest bit of bad news, no matter how trivial, to justify a house price crash.

It looks like we have to go through a ten year long recession, causing misery to millions of people, just to enable the STRs to get back onto the property ladder. The STRs are just deceitful, lying, greedy scum who are just waiting to take advantage of other peoples misery by buying a property at a low price from a distressed home owner who is forced to sell because they can no longer keep up the mortgage payments.