Is it time to cap house prices?

BTLNEWbie_3

When the next government is elected they should bring this is straight away.

One bedroom places should be capped at £40K.
Two bedrooms at £60K
Three bedrooms at £80k
Four bedrooms at £100k
Five bedrooms at £120k etc.

Then these are the other rules. Two bedrooms are only for a couple plus one Kid. Three bedrooms are only for a couple and two Kids etc.
Then you also have different areas for what jobs you have, Doctors, Lawyers etc live in the best areas which move down in graduating areas till you get to the druggies and scum.
The best areas have full time Police patrols and you have to show your ID to get into these areas.
The worst areas you let the druggies wipe each other out.
Do you think we could get this to work?

amcluesent

I dare say segregation based on ethnicity would be a vote winner too.

sarkin

Let the market be free, its natures way

lynzpower

So in this plan what happens to the lawyers and doctors that are "druggie scum". Heroin and cocaine use is rife in these professions- please dont pretend its only the underclass who deals with narcotic abuse.

I do like the idea of capping tho, in this world there would be no surveyors doing vals, no EAs doing vals a national agency, effectively like homeswapping.

Utopia- Europe would never let us get away with it as it impairs the free market. Which is a shame.

lostinrates

H'uh?

First thing I thought was how many times you'd have to keep moving in a short space of time if you met someone, got married then popped out a few kids quickly. Very stressful and expensive (but I suppose better for estate agents and lawyers....whereever they are living...multipe fees!).

piggeh

I think this would be fantastic. Would you get refused permission to enter a 'nice' area once you lose your job? Would Lawyers live in the nice areas or alongside the dregs of society? How about phone salesmen?

I claim first dibs on the 1 bedroom properties with a swimming pool round the back

RecoveringAlcoholic

I actually live in a luxury, executive, designer, gated community.

Will I be allowed out?

trudiha

RecoveringAlcoholic wrote: »

I actually live in a luxury, executive, designer, gated community.

Will I be allowed out?

It's being allowed back in that you should worry about.

If I could chose the kind of people to live next to, right at the top of my list of requirements would be avoiding people who thought of other people as scum.

nearlyrich

Has the OP gone to bed now to sleep it off?

If my 4 bed house was capped at £100k I wouldn't be out of pocket but I suspect my neighbours who paid £200k for their 3 bed would be a bit sick.

Also has others have said who is in a position to judge the value of people? How do you differentiate a "druggie" who holds down a job from one who sits on the street begging?

neverdespairgirl

lynzpower wrote: »

So in this plan what happens to the lawyers and doctors that are "druggie scum". Heroin and cocaine use is rife in these professions

Coke? Not at the Bar, that I've seen, it's far more a City thing. Alcohol is the drug of choice for barristers. I doubt heroin, seriously.

carolt

To take this to its logical conclusion, why bother with prices at all? Why not just have the communist system of allocating all houses to the appropriate family size (relationship to communist hierarchy permitting ).

I have family in East Germany who we visited under communism. Their family home was deemed too large for the 4 of them, and an OAP was housed on their top floor.

In some ways a good system - no homeless people.

In other ways - too many to mention - not such a good system.

Try again, BTLNEWbie? :rolleyes: