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Debate House Prices & the Economy

JingJinJi
Just when you thought cities had become pretty darn big . meet the Real Mega City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjoJ8Tr6o1A My opinion ..central government planning may not be the best thing in this situation.
Nationwide September 2015 - +3.8% YoY
http://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/MainSite/documents/about/house-price-index/Sep-Q3-2015.pdf As I've been saying for a while now and confirmed by Nationwide's Chief Economist: Good news, I'm sure we can all agree?
Right to buy: Housing Associations
Remember the story about the government wanting to see Housing Associations sell off their houses via Right to Buy? Well many were questioning how you would force a charity to sell of it's assets. The answer, is becoming clearer. Force a change so that Housing Associations become public bodies. This will then allow the…
The Great Solar Shift (warm places edition)
More from the economist on uk housing
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21667973-britain-has-one-booming-market-could-do-crash-through-roof?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/trhoughtheroof
Ireland considers rent controls
This story raises some questions... Wasn't Ireland's large property crash due, in part, to the large oversupply of properties? 7 years later, they are considering rent controls due to a severe shortage of housing? I know Ireland took the bulldozer approach to shore up property values and knocked down a few brand new empty…
Favourite charts
How about we throw up some charts, graphs and maps .. http://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1560005
Fergus raising his rents by 33%
His poor tenants are getting screwed. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/property-mogul-has-no-english-43078/ Ooops, didn't see the other thread, please ignore.
Markets in Everything - Unicorn Tears
There is A Thing in the world of internet start-ups called 'a unicorn'. A 'unicorn' is a start up with few or no profits that is worth a billion US dollars. So how does a company become a unicorn? Well it's a relatively straightforward process. You start a website, for example letting people share something in return for a…
Imminent collapse of Deutsche bank ?
http://www.hangthebankers.com/deutsche-bank-collapse-germany/
Another sign these are the good times? Poundland's sales are falling
http://uk.businessinsider.com/poundland-and-99p-store-sales-fall-2015-9 The demise of this kind of outlet is now a certainty IMO, with spending power increasing rapidly and set to continue to rise. Good news, I'm sure we can all agree on that. :)
Hekp to buy HAS pushed up house prices
The research is based on the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (??). KPMG have also commented stating "its not surprising that HTB has pushed prices up". The DCLG maintain that there is no evidence that HTB has pushed up prices. Only evidence that it's allowed more people to buy. As someone in the comments on the…
Nearly one million face mortgage difficulty.
Due to being on interest only deals with no means to repay the capital. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34144333 Serves them right. It's not like the endowment issue where people had no idea of future problems. They chose to borrow more with no means of repayment, and helped push up prices for those of us who live…
http://saynotogeorge.co.uk
Property 118 landlords protest website The property 118 landlords have gone stir crazy with their latest cry baby campaign. Unhappy with the changes where they will have to pay tax and have a balanced chance with first time buyers they have set up say no to george website. http://saynotogeorge.co.uk They warn first time…
Buy-to-let: the past is no guide to the future
http://www.cml.org.uk/news/buy-to-let-the-past-is-no-guide-to-the-future/
We are committed to the NHS, we have more doctors...
What they say........ We will provide an extra £8b for the NHS..... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/george-osborne-conservative-party-election-pledge-extra-8bn-nhs What they do........ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34326453 Meanwhile we fund cheap courses on media studies
Bank of England bit coin
Clever idea, end cash, introduce a new crypto currency pound. This will then allow negative interest rates to be possible across the board. It will also mean a tax revolution no doubt too. http://citywire.co.uk/money/uk-could-adopt-bitcoin-with-negative-interest-rates/a843076
118 Landlords Panic and try lobbying MP's yet again
The more militant arm of landlord websites "Property 118" is throwing their toys out of the pram yet again and lobbying MPs to try and reverse the Budgets start of removal landlords tax advantages over 1st time buyers. Their leader Mark Alexander famous for losing landlords hundreds of thousands pounds with their failed…
Where's going to be the next hotspot?
There were times when in the UK (and other countries*) housing was not so expensive. Where do you think it's going to be the next hot spot? Or that is, do you think it's only ever going to be those countries and prices are only going to go up-up-up because people will find money on trees to pay for it? *UK, Australia, NZ,…
Economist - UK housing S+D, aka "The great British housing-market chart-a-thon"
offered without comment. many apologies if already posted. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/09/housing-britain

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