Debate House Prices & the Economy

Any bets on what Hammond might do? Rent to buy ? Increase tax brackets ? Change buy to let tax rules ? Do nothing and declare all is well ? Minor tinkering ? Revolutionary changes ? Bore us all to death ? Cold pint of Guinness ? Finally Announce end to useless Sunday trading laws ? Tax breaks for Santa? Reduce price of…

Or not, in fact mortgage costs are approaching a recent low at only 17.8% of take home pay for the average FTB. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37987696 Then again I know someone who spends £70 per month on their iPhone package - on a 2 year IO fix at 0.99% that iPhone is costing them as much as an extra 84k of mortgage…

This just sums up this jumped up little twerp and what his partys about .They cant let the country get on with leaving the EU, now they cant leave people alone on remembrance day. Lib Dems asked to apologise for ‘sickening’ Remembrance Day campaigning…

By quite a bit in the south east. Check your place out, it's suddenly worth quite a bit more according to them. Anyone know why they re-estimated so high ?

1) The old doom-mongers on here (the likes of CarolT and brit1234) have gone VERY quiet over the past year to 18 months. Perhaps they’ve bought somewhere nice together? 2) We no longer see Jonathan Davis, the great complainer, on telly anymore roaring about an impending crash. If these siren voices have fallen silent, then…

So Trump won and Hilary lost. As the winner we have to say that the Republicans chose a winning candidate who ran a winning campaign.. The Democrats chose a loosing candidate who ran a loosing campaign. So who should we blame for Trump winning?

Lots of talk in the media of how Free trade and globalization is/has failed the domestic working class and the Trump/Brexit is a backlash to it. What is the view on this subsection of the forum? Is the working class worse off now vs the past? Really think hard are they? If yes why? Are/were manufacturing jobs that great?…

Asking because it strikes me that a lot of assumptions that have been made, on both sides of the Brexit debate, that the US economy will behave in an expectable way and therefore that the direction of the currency and the knock-on effects, while not fully predictable, can be reasonably anticipated (pound devalues to a…

Do you think Supreme Court will overturn High Court ruling or it will uphold the verdict?

Running in both the Guardian and Independent today. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/06/triple-lock-pension-should-scrapped-mps-generational-inequalities http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scrap-the-triple-lock-on-pensions-mps-say-a7399721.html Millennials worse off than their parents, retiring boomers…

So it seems that after years of the U.K. stopping the Indian EU trade treaty ( as well as a few matters of mass murder a while ago) the Indians (who the Brexiteers are partly holding high hopes for a good deal) , are itching to give us a kick in the balls and can't wait for us to leave so they can sign up a decent deal…

........ treatment. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3904526/Sack-Outrage-Great-Ormond-Street-hospital-worker-wishes-illness-Brexiteers-children-BBC-Question-Time-revenge-vote-leave-EU.html Should she be sacked ? Surely saying something like that and disclosing where she is employed is seriously unprofessional and…

I can't see it happening can you ? Half the tories are pro EU, most labour MP's are pro EU and the scots are wildly pro EU and UKIP dead in the water. Even the prime minister is secret remainer and now the country has felt the early cost of Brexit , they are more pro remain than ever, surely ? I think it's game over for…

Good news for remainers and bregretters, Turns out parliament is sovereign after all. The ruling is based on the fact that, exiting from the EU, changes existing treaties that will directly affect the human rights of residents. Therefore there must be a parliamentary vote before such decisions are made. It is expected that…

Bank of England gone mad. Carney must go now. There is a huge problem at the BoE as the it (he) is setting policy based on what he expects to happen in the future. This a bad idea, a massively bad idea. :money: Apart from anything else he has got his forecasts massively wrong. But the real problem is what is called in…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37842354 Does anyone else remember how we were all told that 2012 Olympics would not only be a sporting success, but a financial success as well? The 10 billion costs would be an investment. They even had a well paid Legacy team to ensure that maximum profit would be extracted from the…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/renting/these-charts-show-just-how-tough-it-is-being-a-member-of-generat/ Shelter is campaigning for five-year tenancies to be the norm - much like in Europe. Of course in Europe you can depreciate the property against tax and fully offset the mortgage interest against tax as well, which…

SO lets assume that Trump wins the White House and the republicans hold onto both houses. What on earth will happen to the economy in the short and medium terms. My guess the markets have pretty much priced in a democratic victory so we are talking a change in sentiment of Brexit proportions. Would we see equity markets…

We see a lot of angry shouting about Brexit, with neither side seemingly being willing to accept any other views. Has anyone, since voting, changed their view, be it from Leave to Remain, or Remain to Leave? Can you explain why? EDIT: The 2nd question should be "Yes, I'm now against it".

http://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/44434-london-s-property-prices-could-double-by-2030-jll-predicts