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"- List price does not mean "nothing", as you yourself point out above."
The list price could be based on a wonderfully accurate valuation or it could be from a random number generator. Do you know how they came upon the list price? No. So, once again we're back to the number being meaningless.
"- A 15% rise may be meaningless to you, but if it had happened 3 months ago I wouldn't have been able to buy this place."
Does your dictionary not include words such as "bargain" or "haggle"? The listed price of your property increasing by 15% could be someone going "ooh housing bubble let's chance it" and they get no offers because people do their research and they sell to you anyway. Once again, you don't know any of the behind-the-scenes of their pricing calculations so it's meaningless. What if they were made redundant after listing or had to move away somewhere and you offered 50% of asking price for a quick cash sale - they might accept. Once again, the listed price is meaningless.