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I agree all is not well at RDW but it is not much rosier anywhere else. Sales hard to come by. Negative sentiment growing. Survive till Xmas and then prepare for doom. I am not in the best of humour currently. Lots of what I see and hear suggest we are in for 12 months of sheer hell. Green shoots now cropped until Q2 2011. Ouch! Buy gold.

SM had to sacrifice Harrow as there was far too much potential for conflict of interest. Harrow is/was a great company but now it is a front-end land delivery vehicle for Redrow and has lost a number of key personnel so will not be able to replicate past success. The Harrow purchase has given Redrow a lot of plots primarily in the north west but they could have taken more of Harrow's sites than they did so perhaps there is still some degree of choosiness? Like all the major housebuilders SM is pushing hard on new land purchases but doesn't want to pay anything for the land until much further down the line. The sector is being crucified in this new downturn as the market makers have lost out big time over the past 6 months and are determined to beat the PI's into submission. This is going to happen across the markets over the coming months - so we should all switch to cash ASAP. I don't agree that TW has traction but I do agree with you on BDEV - it is the sleeping giant and is well placed after the RI. Mark Clare has steered the ship very well (he still has a job so that proves something) and they will mop up when others start to falter (again). If BDEV gets below £1.20 then I reckon it is a bargain, but with sentiment the way it is, I reckon it might push down towards the RI price of £1. Then it would be a compelling bargain buy.

yes indeedy. LID has maintained sp strength when all others are not. Quality company. 27p by Xmas easily. Fill your boots.

I remain convinced these will rise but just for the moment i am going elsehwere. GKP and MNR offer short term gains beyond LID. But I will be back (knowing my luck just when they hit 27p). See you back here soon.

inspred insight, well done. You only have to look at TW's recent retrace to realise that all is not well. No mortgage finance, no first time buyers = very sickly housing market. I would be very interested to know where you are working as you are clearly possessed of fantastic knowledge.

up again on nice £11k buy. spread now 17/19 but not that wide in reality - you can buy lower than 19 and sell higher than 17 so true spread much better than 12%. Steady rises now day by day. 20p by end of week and then onwards to 27p. You still watching this Petertee?

a 12.5k trade (can't yet see if buy or sell) but the sp now up 5.96%. Anyone want any background here then read back through Petertee's helpful posts and see also: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSBNG51616520090819 slowly but surely the hidden value here will be realised. IMO. DYOR. LA DI LA. etc

this time a 50k share buy pushes sp up 3%. Any concerted buying and this will surely rise strongly. Anyone out there want to form a buying group with me to see where we can get this? 27p still my short term goal.

This time it goes up on a sell of 40k!! Come on everyone - sell your shares and you will leave me sat here with a small fortune! LP 17.07, spread 16 to 17.5 but you can tend to trade LID somewhat within the spread. I wonder if there is some news coming?

Small buy and sp shoots up over 5%. At least I guess it was a buy - would be even better if it is rising on a sell!!! This has 27p written all over it and perhaps it will be heading there soon.

12% drop and no buys/sells. I think even the MM's have got bored and decided to boot this into touch. Either there is some bad news around the corner or we are being tempted to buy. I can't decide which so I'm staying out.

Cheers for that. I haven't seen such a tentative RNS for a long time!! But hey - let the sp rise!!

can someone post a link please?

I guess there are more interesting shares than LID currently and having been in AMC and still in PXS I know what I mean! People are bound to take money out of slower moving shares and put it into fast movers. But, they tend to be short-lived while LID will steadily rise when others are falling. This is a quality share and will hit 27p before too long. GLA.

just back down from the massively profitable madness that was AMC - still plenty to go there I reckon. So 19.75 was the day's high for LID. Good stable rise overall. May now be a little slower rising than I thought but I expect a similar day tomorrow and then new bods buying in on Monday perhaps. GLA.

I agree that long term after the dilution the sp will rise as the commercial property market picks up and QED's quality assets are revalued upwards. But it will fall before then. Just look at SGRO - it only rose after the RI/consolidation. SMP also rose massively just before RI announcement. CAL experience today should act as a warning. Just too big a sp rise recently in QED to put down to market sentiment.

19.75 but bid/offer not caught up yet. 18.7/19.4. Offer must hit 20p soon.

Exactly! Shouldn't be allowed.

utter manipulation of a sp to flatter a RI. I feel sorry for those who have bought recently at anything above 35p. I've just posted a big warning on the QED BB as I reckon exactly the same manipulation has been going on there and that a RI RNS must be imminent. The only time to buy these now is after the dilution. see SGRO - has risen nicely but only after the dilution. GLA.

The recent manipulation of CAL's sp was just to flatter the RI now announced and which has sent their sp back from 100p to probably near the RI price of 24p. IMHO this is exactly what the MM's are doing with QED - inflating the sp just before a RNS which will announce a "heavily discounted" RI at say 50p and everyone will think that is great except those who remember that only two weeks ago this sp was less than 70p. Yes I missed the rise but anyone buying in now should be very careful and anyone sitting on big profits should think about taking them out asap. I may be wrong but I can see no other reason for the sp rise. Time will tell. Buy in on weakness after the RI dilution.