David Cuerden

Many people find themselves asking " How can I avoid repossession"?, Well the financial meltdown that started more than two years ago has undoubtedly put a strain on a lot of people. There are about 2.45 million unemployed today, and while that is an alarming number, it is down by 20,000 from the first quarter of the year.

Can I sell my house fast?. Well, since the great slide of free economy started in mid-2007, probably the worst since the Great Depression, newspaper headlines have been filled with words like "unemployment," "recession," "repossessions," "credit crunch," "bankrupt," and the likes. Just recently, "double dip" is bantered all over.

Estate agents can be forgiven for feeling down for not earning as much as they used to. After all, like most of us, they are victims of the economy's sudden downward spiral too. People are asking " How do I sell my home in this market?

After showing recent signs of recovery, it seems Britain's property market is, in the words of Ben Hudson, a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), "once again on a knife edge." While there has been an increase in the number of properties being listed in the market, there is no sufficient demand from buyers, so prices are expected to drop further.

Summer's over. Your bikinis, surf shorts, and sun tan lotions all retreat to your closet. Long, laid back days sitting by the pool while sipping ice-cold lemon tea are just but a distant memory now.

No one is immune to the housing slump or a house repossession. Take for example, Nicolas Cage, who just last year was the fifth biggest earner in Hollywood with a 26 million GBP income. He once owned 15 mansions (some of them are literally palaces), had four yachts, an island in Bahamas, a private plane, and so much more.

Leon and Maggie Cooper-Smith were just over 60 when they retired, or at least they thought they did. They bought a charming thatched cottage on the Norfolk Broads, thinking they would be able to pay it off with cash from their pension plan. But the economy went sour and so did their pension plans, leaving them with 40 percent less than what they had expected.

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It has been a tumultuous last three years for many of us, to say the least - with job loss at all-time highs, stock market indices swinging up and down so unpredictably, and house repossession a growing occurrence. To raise much-needed cash, many of us may have been thinking, "I need to sell my house fast!"

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