General Discussion
Whilst I too agree with Mark Carney's forensic examination of incomes and the reasons why, the issue is that people who wish to own their own home cannot do so. Not just because their income multiplied by 3 won't be enough but because their income muliplied by 10 probably wouldn't be enough! It may be the cultural norm in other European countries that people rent. Here it is not. I regard ...
High house prices, generation rent. How did it happen? “In the past decade, the private rented sector has nearly doubled in size, from around five million in 2001 to nine million now. A fifth of families with children now live in private rented housing. Traditionally, the private rented sector has been seen primarily as a tenure for students and young professionals who are living ...
and another thing........ there is nothing that restricts any one person to owning only one property is there? I mean, you got the dosh you can buy as many properties as you like and then rent 'em out. Either to generation rent or, as we are a holiday resort, to holiday makers. Generation Rent please wake up! - you've got 12 months between now and the next general election. Use your ...
I thought the coaches dropped off, and picked up, passengers outside Baileys. Yes? No? Some do at least - seen 'em doin' it. So who is complaining? The coach drivers or the holidaymakers? And the leisure centre. What refreshment facilities does it have now? I haven't been in it since it was refurbished last school summer holidays(ahem) but am I right in thinking that what was once the small ...
I see from today's Gazette (page XII of the property pages) that one of the houses, The Langstone, on the new Bovis/Cavanna estate at Secmaton Lane, will be open to the public this coming Saturday 10th May between 2pm-4pm. So if you are interested to see what £334,995 could buy you might want to nosey on down. ...
@Clive - i've just looked at that daily mail link you given two posts above. it says the article was written by a leading historian but i cannot find that historian named anywhere. Now I would have thought that if the historian was so 'leading' that s/he would have been named, not least to give some credence and weight to the contents of said article. And why would a historian be writing ...
@Clive - you haven't defined ethnic minorities (does the daily mail?). do you mean non white people? it's just that you talk of the white population growth remaining constant. So, no impact then on the UK's population growth by white EU migrants? Not sure just exactly what groups you/The Daily Mail are actually referring to. addendum: just looked into this a bit more. Seems the ethnic ...
Sorry, forgot to point out that whilst the Conservatives promote home ownership and the private sector they don't like the public sector and they don't like publicly owned houses. (council houses). "................there was nothing inevitable about this housing crunch. The new immigrants brought with them skills and a willingness to work and some of them could have been used to ...
Okay, the following may be a bit simplistic but the way I see the housing issue is as follows: That all this new house building and the cost of housing (both to buy and to rent) is a bit of a problem for the Conservative Party given as property owning is a central tenet of their philosophy (cf Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy of the 1980s). On the one hand we need more housing and the ...
So......to return to the topic of housing development and farmland. Thought this from The Telegraph in March 2013 might be of interest. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9921344/Councillors-for-hire-who-give-firms-planning-advice.html
