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The sign of things to come? Amazing!

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Ad Posts: 223 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Apparently over 1000 empty holiday homes have now been taken over. :eek:

Its amazing the things the main stream media decide NOT to report.

http://rentfreecornwall.blogspot.com/

http://www.purbeckhousingaction.co.u...lt.aspx?p=news

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...2/nlake122.xml

There seems to be growing anger by the day.


And then this to fan the flames of anger even more - :eek:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6230384.stm


First-time buyer plight brings buy-to-let opportunities

http://news.assetz.co.uk/articles/3573.html

The NAEA is drooling at the prospect of first time buyers becoming an extinct species. A sea of speculators feasting on the demise of the first time buyer and battling each other in a bidding war over the last few crumbs.


Its a pretty sickening state of affairs.
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  • krishna
    krishna Posts: 818 Forumite
    All the properties occupied are owned by a property investment company based in Guernsey. I can understand their motivation for doing so.
  • wecanhelpu
    wecanhelpu Posts: 630 Forumite
    And me.

    Good luck to them
  • Ad
    Ad Posts: 223 Forumite
    krishna wrote: »
    All the properties occupied are owned by a property investment company based in Guernsey. I can understand their motivation for doing so.


    Its utterly disgusting the way hard working families have been treated in Cornwall and many other parts of Britain. I like what the local clergy man said in that the housing market has been taken over as one massive gambling cartel.

    Its now only a matter of time as hard working people who only wish to have some security for them and their familes are now sick to the back teeth of this rotten government.
  • Romani_Ite_Domum
    Romani_Ite_Domum Posts: 428 Forumite
    This is excellent.

    Cornwall has been hit hard by the nation's obsession with investment in property.

    It's about time something was done. Better than burning holiday homes.... just live in them.
  • Ad
    Ad Posts: 223 Forumite
    Some of the articles on the blog such as the family made homeless after having their rent doubled is just so very sad. The landlord hasn't visited the property since the 90's and its now stands empty.
  • wecanhelpu
    wecanhelpu Posts: 630 Forumite
    The new BTL - Break in-To- Live
  • Ad
    Ad Posts: 223 Forumite
    wecanhelpu wrote: »
    The new BTL - Break in-To- Live

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • Ad
    Ad Posts: 223 Forumite
    Romani_Ite_Domum wrote: »
    This is excellent.

    Cornwall has been hit hard by the nation's obsession with investment in property.

    It's about time something was done. Better than burning holiday homes.... just live in them.


    Absolutely! :beer:
  • CB1979_2
    CB1979_2 Posts: 1,335 Forumite
    personally thinks it's disgusting.

    double-edged sword and all that, but I hope that you get some druggie squatters moving into the house next to you, and see if you're jumping for joy then.

    I'm assuming the home owners can legally cut off water/gas/elec to the properties?

    and no this isn't because I'm a LL (if you don't know i'm a 1 property TEMP LL), why should the wealthy people who have earned their money be treated like this just because they want a nice place to stay in the country for a few weeks of the year? they've earned it, not acted illegally by buying the property :confused:

    the council's if they want to do something should stop people from being able to buy if from outside the area, not advocating trespassing, and i'm sure they would be well pleased if the area got all the local druggies squatting in this area, or is that what they're hoping for to lower the prices? lol
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    !!!!!! hot :)

    I have been saying this country needs a civil war for ages now.

    Maybe this is the start of it (not like them peasants in Africa have a civil war)

    but a more....... erm......... 'civil' civil war ;)
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