Birmingham council says new build flats not good enough for council tennants.

mewbie_2

Here are the first two paragraphs...

Hundreds of apartments built at the height of Birmingham’s professional services boom are lying empty, with even the city council refusing to buy them at knock-down prices for homeless people.
It has emerged that developers desperate to shift the one and two bedroom flats – branded the “slums of tomorrow” by a senior councillor – have approached civic housing officials hoping to do a deal.

I'm not interested in what the council does or doesn't do, the politics, the grief, etc. What really interests me is the outlook for property as a get rich quick scheme.

Hundreds lying empty... oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,

Really2

mewbie wrote: »

Hundreds lying empty... oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,

I take it you have never been to birmingham city centre

TBH though I would be surprised the jewlery quarter properties are not converted industrial stuff. (just presuming as their is a lot of old industrial stuff there, but I have not been for years)

The boom caused a bias for building flats for BTL. But hundreds of flats being empty in the centre of birmingham is going to have little impact on terraces, semis and detached houses in the more the more family orientated outskirts.

Just be glad they never turned fort Dunlop in to flats.

mewbie_2

Really2 wrote: »

I take it you have never been to birmingham city centre

Everyone has been to Brum centre.

But I've no idea what your point was. The thread is about unwanted flats. Nothing to do with terraces, etc. Try to concentrate.

Really2

mewbie wrote: »

Everyone has been to Brum centre.

But I've no idea what your point was.

It was a joke (as in would you want to live in the centre of Birmingham. at the end to help the joke aspect of it)

Back to a petty feud hey bigboy.:rolleyes:

Truth is mewbes I have better things to do than get you all red and puffing.

(pops off to user CP)

mewbie_2

Really2 wrote: »

It was a joke (as in would you want to live in the centre of Birmingham. at the end to help the joke aspect of it)

Back to a petty feud hey bigboy.:rolleyes:

Truth is mewbes I have better things to do than get you all red and puffing.

(pops off to user CP)

Oh. A joke. Sorry I missed it...despite the smiley. I was posting about the topic rather than making silly jokes.

Really2

mewbie wrote: »

I was posting about the topic rather than making silly jokes.

Trust me to find one of the few examples.:p

Spartacus_Mills

Really2 wrote: »

It was a joke (as in would you want to live in the centre of Birmingham. at the end to help the joke aspect of it)

Back to a petty feud hey bigboy.:rolleyes:

Truth is mewbes I have better things to do than get you all red and puffing.

(pops off to user CP)

These flats aren't in the city centre. They are in the Jewellry Quarter which is outside of the city centre. Quite a few of the flats there have been built in old factories. One development was in a factory I used to work in. Lucas Great Hampton Street.

mewbie_2

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

These flats aren't in the city centre. They are in the Jewellry Quarter which is outside of the city centre. Quite a few of the flats there have been built in old factories. One development was in a factory I used to work in. Lucas Great Hampton Street.

And that statement sums up new Britain. No work, and a load of new builds. That's the trouble with stupid bubbles, and stupid people, spending stupid amounts of other stupid people's money.

Really2

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

They are in the Jewellry Quarter which is outside of the city centre. Quite a few of the flats there have been built in old factories. One development was in a factory I used to work in. Lucas Great Hampton Street.

Really2 wrote: »

TBH though I would be surprised the jewlery quarter properties are not converted industrial stuff. (just presuming as their is a lot of old industrial stuff there, but I have not been for years)

So my guess was fairly accurate. I used to deal with the Birmingham Mint (that is the only reason I knew that area) I presumed there were city centre ones also (based on the new build comments).

Graham_Devon

mewbie wrote: »

I'm not interested in what the council does or doesn't do, the politics, the grief, etc. What really interests me is the outlook for property as a get rich quick scheme.

Hundreds lying empty... oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,

Lack of supply. Bad for housing see. Means homes are left empty.