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Sugar Tax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_aMZWv-7FY (SFW) I've been having a bit of a look at the Sugar Tax and its impact should it ever come to be (it is looking highly likely to be subject to a legal challenge under EU competition law). So what is the impact likely to be? At the average not a lot. The average UK household…
Average asking prices pass 300k!!!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rightmove-House-Price-Index-March-2016-FINAL.pdf
How much is immigration effecting house prices in London and SE?
As per thread title
Is immigration increasing house prices in London and the south east
Well is it?
Are the Tories going to tear themselves apart?
Are they lucky labour are an even bigger mess? Are they dividing over the middle ground? Will the EU referendum finish them off? Is their majority too slim? Will the uk forever be destabilised by increasingly divided votes and coalition's (even within parties)? How often should one change their bedsheets?
CLAPTON : behind the questions
Hi CLAPTON i think we all know various bits about each others lives outside of the debates on here. Eg who has kids, how old we are, where we live / work etc. You are one of the most frequent but enigmatic posters on here.... but we know nothing about you other than some of your political views. You also have a fairly…
Tampon Tax : who should decide
should the UK government have the power to decide the level of VAT on tampons
QE: What if...
Sorry if this topic has already been covered but it's something that I've thought about a few times. Since 2010, The Bank of England injected £375bn of cash into the economy through QE. This was meant to stimulate lending, drive demand and restore shopper confidence but a fair old wedge of it seemed to end up stuck at the…
Money Supply
Instead of hijacking padington's thread I thought I'd move my next reply here. Just recapping with some quotes: I asked: Generali answered: Which is explaining how money is created using fractional reserve system. But this is stuff I already knew, and I was interested to understand if you wound back all of those loans,…
BCR approaching 100%
Here's an interesting post. http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/203556-are-the-shires-crashing/?p=1102903793 There are the usual HPC tropes in there - “it’s madness”, “I’ve been waiting for prices to fall [yet I don’t, for all that, see myself as any sort of speculator]”. But I thought I’d work out his…
This should change the whole game soon
... And it could be an enormous threat to London or at least the banking sector ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/13/central-banks-beat-bitcoin-at-own-game-with-rival-supercurrency/ Not to forget the price of bit coins.
Exploitation, Exploitation, Exploitation
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/mar/14/exploitation-exploitation-exploitation-a-property-show-for-millennials-video WARNING: Contains fruity language. NSFW!
Pensions - unpleasant reading
Not nice: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/unless-theres-compromise-the-world-faces-a-pension-disaster-2016-3
Budget 2016
Here we go!
I'm curious George. What's in your box?
Budget day..... Predictions, critique and rantings..... Me - I want the Tory government I voted for. Aggressive spending cuts, brave decisions and lower taxes please. Osbourne's been too soft for my liking so far.
London Stock Exchange
Apologies if this has been covered , a quick search didnt reveal much If a 'merger' goes ahead between Deutsche Börse and our own London Stock Exchange ,( with DB apparently being favoured with 10% more than the LSE when I last read about it) , will it mean that Germany could if it wished to in time,surreptitiosly move the…
Can anyone make sense of this chart?
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspectives-housing-and-home-ownership-in-the-uk/ ...which is an analysis of home occupation by tenure from 1980 to 2012. So about 3/4 of the way down, we have a chart which shows the split between Owner Occupied, Rented privately, Rented from housing associations, and Rented from local…
Crossrail 2
I see Crossrail 2 has been given the independent assessment endorsement, all but approved? Wood Green prices to the moon! My station also falls on the CR2 route, so I will have a direct link to Wood Green. I assume that means my house will be worth an automatic 43.2% more?
The Rich Now Pay for a Four Pack
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/your-money/if-its-march-it-must-be-miami-when-home-changes-with-the-season.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Sounds like a good reason to increase property taxes at the expense of other taxes: tax people that can afford to pay but don't even use services!
Treatment of BTL in the budget?
There is a real risk that the proposed punitive taxes on property investors will just end up being passed on to tenants in the form of higher rents, as happened when a booming Ireland tried this experiment almost twenty years ago. Indeed the only ones likely to benefit from this are those landlords who dont declare their…

Sugar Tax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_aMZWv-7FY (SFW) I've been having a bit of a look at the Sugar Tax and its impact should it ever come to be (it is looking highly likely to be subject to a legal challenge under EU competition law). So what is the impact likely to be? At the average not a lot. The average UK household…
Average asking prices pass 300k!!!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rightmove-House-Price-Index-March-2016-FINAL.pdf
How much is immigration effecting house prices in London and SE?
As per thread title
Is immigration increasing house prices in London and the south east
Well is it?
Are the Tories going to tear themselves apart?
Are they lucky labour are an even bigger mess? Are they dividing over the middle ground? Will the EU referendum finish them off? Is their majority too slim? Will the uk forever be destabilised by increasingly divided votes and coalition's (even within parties)? How often should one change their bedsheets?
CLAPTON : behind the questions
Hi CLAPTON i think we all know various bits about each others lives outside of the debates on here. Eg who has kids, how old we are, where we live / work etc. You are one of the most frequent but enigmatic posters on here.... but we know nothing about you other than some of your political views. You also have a fairly…
Tampon Tax : who should decide
should the UK government have the power to decide the level of VAT on tampons
QE: What if...
Sorry if this topic has already been covered but it's something that I've thought about a few times. Since 2010, The Bank of England injected £375bn of cash into the economy through QE. This was meant to stimulate lending, drive demand and restore shopper confidence but a fair old wedge of it seemed to end up stuck at the…
Money Supply
Instead of hijacking padington's thread I thought I'd move my next reply here. Just recapping with some quotes: I asked: Generali answered: Which is explaining how money is created using fractional reserve system. But this is stuff I already knew, and I was interested to understand if you wound back all of those loans,…
BCR approaching 100%
Here's an interesting post. http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/203556-are-the-shires-crashing/?p=1102903793 There are the usual HPC tropes in there - “it’s madness”, “I’ve been waiting for prices to fall [yet I don’t, for all that, see myself as any sort of speculator]”. But I thought I’d work out his…
This should change the whole game soon
... And it could be an enormous threat to London or at least the banking sector ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/13/central-banks-beat-bitcoin-at-own-game-with-rival-supercurrency/ Not to forget the price of bit coins.
Exploitation, Exploitation, Exploitation
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/mar/14/exploitation-exploitation-exploitation-a-property-show-for-millennials-video WARNING: Contains fruity language. NSFW!
Pensions - unpleasant reading
Not nice: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/unless-theres-compromise-the-world-faces-a-pension-disaster-2016-3
Budget 2016
Here we go!
I'm curious George. What's in your box?
Budget day..... Predictions, critique and rantings..... Me - I want the Tory government I voted for. Aggressive spending cuts, brave decisions and lower taxes please. Osbourne's been too soft for my liking so far.
London Stock Exchange
Apologies if this has been covered , a quick search didnt reveal much If a 'merger' goes ahead between Deutsche Börse and our own London Stock Exchange ,( with DB apparently being favoured with 10% more than the LSE when I last read about it) , will it mean that Germany could if it wished to in time,surreptitiosly move the…
Can anyone make sense of this chart?
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspectives-housing-and-home-ownership-in-the-uk/ ...which is an analysis of home occupation by tenure from 1980 to 2012. So about 3/4 of the way down, we have a chart which shows the split between Owner Occupied, Rented privately, Rented from housing associations, and Rented from local…
Crossrail 2
I see Crossrail 2 has been given the independent assessment endorsement, all but approved? Wood Green prices to the moon! My station also falls on the CR2 route, so I will have a direct link to Wood Green. I assume that means my house will be worth an automatic 43.2% more?
The Rich Now Pay for a Four Pack
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/your-money/if-its-march-it-must-be-miami-when-home-changes-with-the-season.html?smid=tw-nytimesbusiness&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Sounds like a good reason to increase property taxes at the expense of other taxes: tax people that can afford to pay but don't even use services!
Treatment of BTL in the budget?
There is a real risk that the proposed punitive taxes on property investors will just end up being passed on to tenants in the form of higher rents, as happened when a booming Ireland tried this experiment almost twenty years ago. Indeed the only ones likely to benefit from this are those landlords who dont declare their…

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