Property Watch is part of the delusion

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Sure, but my point is they CAN fall, despite demand: if we can't pay we can't have!

4 generations in a house: unpopular but traditional. Built in baby sitters, carers for older generation. Sucurity support. Its not ideal: but subdivideing a house/larger property wouldn't be so frightful for many as we believe.

I think that people are too used to the idea that they need to separated from family. Support for the older generation is seriously lacking and a big house subdivided is good for care and reduces the burden on national health care.

Hrms..sorry, the family in the 1bed flat is now renting a 3 bed house from the council. not intending to buy for now but feeling wistful.


ooooo....multi million pound developer. pmsl. no offers

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

I think that people are too used to the idea that they need to separated from family. Support for the older generation is seriously lacking and a big house subdivided is good for care and reduces the burden on national health care.

My parents want to come with us now when we move. :rolleyes::D They've been great to us and it makes me feel a lot easier about living further from them. Managing a potential business, animals and maybe a family and driving miles and miles for emergency trips to hospital for parental falls etc has really been worrying me. So we're looking with somewhere with scope for granny flat/nearby housing.

FoxtonsRIP

samba wrote: »

Personally, I didn't think the program was very balanced and they should have had a selection of "experts" rather than wheeling the same one out all the time, who has a very one-sided opinion (she may be right of course, but they should have still presented both sides).

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I disagree. After many years of blatant property ramping from Kirstie, Phil & co. it makes a pleasant change to see some responsible broadcasting for a change.

ukcarper

lostinrates wrote: »

Sure, but my point is they CAN fall, despite demand: if we can't pay we can't have!

4 generations in a house: unpopular but traditional. Built in baby sitters, carers for older generation. Sucurity support. Its not ideal: but subdivideing a house/larger property wouldn't be so frightful for many as we believe.

ETA: single woman, one child, three bed house??? Oh, I see not single, fair enough,

What makes you think all grandparents want to spent their retirement looking after grandchildren

lostinrates

ukcarper wrote: »

What makes you think all grandparents want to spent their retirement looking after grandchildren

I know my parents want to spend some time with my neices. I know they'd rather we look after them than care homes too. I doubt most want to spend all their time with even beloved grandchildren, but a lot would be happy for an afternoon/evening either regularly or now and then, especially in return for help from their children with stuff they are starting to find hard.

PasturesNew

Many "grandparents" these days are only 40-45 themselves and still in full-time work.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Many "grandparents" these days are only 40-45 themselves and still in full-time work.

Inded, and many are much older, as women started having babies later too. My mother is old enough top be my grandmother, my sister old enough to be my mother, legally. I am in fact, just, nearer in age to my oldest neice than my sister.:D Families are certainly mor diverse in age, size, geographical spread etc than before. And their needs and wants from housing/family network, one might guess, similarly diverse.

ETA: I just worked out that legally my mother is more than old enough to be my great, great grandmother, and a bit more....scary.

bdon

The UK (and I suppose the USA - heavily influenced by us in the City) just went a bit mad. That's all there is to it. 2,000 years of civilisation should provide the majority of citizens with a roof over their head and some fulfilling work.

to think that our entire economic "growth" was based upon selling each other rather mediocre housing units (without architectural or aesthetic value) is utterly mad - but mad almost beyond comprehension.

one quarter of one million pounds for a two up two down in a bad part of the uk - this delusion has gone beyond the previous "cupboard in knightsbridge"

madder, much madder than the dot.com - we haven't even started the real-world recession yet - people are still out drinking and eating.

BT culling (my corp culling) plenty of others will too - we just went a little mad...

a good place to live should cost 3 x your salary [single not joint]

tesuhoha

That programme tells lies or must be recorded. They said tonight that Redrow had stopped building when in fact they have started building again. My husband knows this as he works in the building trade.

ninky_2

FoxtonsRIP wrote: »

After many years of blatant property ramping from Kirstie, Phil & co. it makes a pleasant change to see some responsible broadcasting for a change.

did you see that outrageous show 'Kirstie's homemade home'. talk about an excuse for getting a load of freebies for your home. also, after making out she's was making a nice personal place, it's on the market being rented out.

the whole thing was one big advert for her investment.