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Is it ethical?
.... for an employer to send emails etc to their employee's 'encouraging' them to vote in a certain way on the EU referendum? Both sides seem to be doing this... Surely this is inappropriate?
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Any BTL's Buying? EA's getting really pushy
Anyone thinking it's a good idea to delay exchange after the referendum? Estate agent is pushing for exchange now, and until now has been uninvolved, I'm fairly certain this new urgency is to do with some buyers pulling out, prices dropping and generally EA's being quite due to the uncertainty. EA's which up to a few weeks…
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Brexit - Economic impact?
Looming Sterling Crisis? https://twitter.com/faisalislam Money being withdrawn from the UK already.... http://news.sky.com/story/1708390/eu-osborne-warning-over-capital-flight-cost Exchange rate chaos likely...…
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Lord Salisbury on suffrage
To give 'the suffrage' to a poor man is to give him as large a part in determining that legislation which is mainly concerned with property as the banker whose name is known on every Exchange in Europe, as the merchant whose ships are in every sea, as the landowner who owns the soil of a whole manufacturing town...two…
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The Only Way is UP!
Well not in the short-term, anything can happen in the short-term but this is what Bill Gross, probably the most famous bond investor in the world, has to say about the current market for debt: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/gross-says-negative-rates-are-like-supernova-that-will-explode In further…
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MSE News: EU vote registration deadline extended until Thursday night
The deadline to register for a vote in the EU referendum has been extended to 11.59pm on Thursday 9 June after technical problems with the Government's website meant some people missed the original deadline...Read the full story: 'EU vote registration deadline extended until Thursday night after website crashes' Click…
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West Bromwich BTL landlords win
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/landlords-win-legal-battle-over-lenders-unfair-mortgage-rate-ris/ So BTL lenders can't vary a tracker rate unless the base rate changes, and they can't call in a mortgage that's not in default. I'm on a 20 year tracker so very happy about this. It will be interesting to…
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My first London flat (1988) is up for sale...
This is the flat I bought in London in 1988 as a second-time buyer. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54507298.html It looks better than it is. When the toilet flushes upstairs you can hear the water making its way across the whole width of the building inches above your ceiling, which is so low you can…
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Everything that is wrong with the French economy
http://www.france24.com/en/20160607-france-societe-generale-ordered-pay-rogue-trader-kerviel-450000-euros-wrongful-termination You may remember Jerome Kerviel, he was the rogue trader that cost Soci!t! G!n!rale almost EUR5,000,000,000 in losses as they unwound unauthorised derivative positions he had taken. It turns out…
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Which turncoat HPC crashtroll is this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/07/i-was-an-angry-young-renter-who-railed-against-the-mortgage-indu/
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Has Crashy and co finally come to their senses...
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/210009-is-it-time-to-admit-we-are-just-plain-wrong/
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Oh My God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFy8gkgfSWs&feature=youtu.be This is just horrible. 16 minutes, needs sound. SFW I suppose. Warning: Contains 18 year old 'hedge fund mangers'. I feel unwell.
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Blue on Blue gets really nasty?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07gb99n/the-andrew-marr-show-05062016 John Major puts the boot in......utterly false statements about Turkey.........nonsense on slilts ....serially disloyal IDS......pig in a poke..(lies)....and the leave campaign know that...............outside we will become a vastly diminished…
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Swiss voting on basic income of £21,000 a year!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36443512 Seems a bit high, doesn't it? If the UK were to adopt a measure along those lines, the gross cost would be somewhere in the region of £1trillion per year, which is comparable to, if not slightly greater than, the entirety of current government spending. Obviously the upside…
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Will house prices rise or fall with Brexit
What will be the effect of Brexit on house prices?
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It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes.
It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes. Scotland wasn't allowed to leave the UK, even though the people voted for it. It was rigged. Spain wasn't allowed to leave the EU, Greese wasn't allowed to leave the EU the U.K. has vast majority wanting to leave but it's goin to be rigged again.
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Traders making their own Brexit polls to sell sterling
http://www.markpack.org.uk/140741/european-referendum-exit-polls/
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Remember when...we noticed that Nationwide Year on Year was down to 4.2%
Pretty much impossible to call housing market trends at the moment due to the impact of the btl stamp duty cliff at the end of March. However we can remember that the late 80s boom / crash coincided with the removal of miras brining an artificial surge followed by a hangover.
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MSE News: EU referendum – one week to register to vote
The deadline to register to vote in the EU referendum on 23 June closes in one week – do you need to register?...Read the full story: 'EU referendum – one week to register to vote' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our New to Forum?…
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Is property in a bubble?
If you look at the official definitions of a bubble and think of the property market for each one. 1. popular mania? YES Property prices are on everyone lips, in the news and everyone loves to talk about them. 2. excessive debt? Oh YES! Very excessive debt compared to the long term norm of about 3.5x income. 3. greater…
