Demographia 2009: It IS a supply shortage after all.....

Mr.Brown_4

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You need a place to live. You desire to live there alone. You can only convert need and desire into demand when you obtain financing.

Are you Derren Brown?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Mr.Brown wrote: »

Are you Derren Brown?

Did you get bored after just 2 posts on hpc Mewbie? I read the one about you being banned on here. Touching.

Do feel free to try again though, I'm sure they'll accept you eventually.

Graham_Devon

I don't understand how you are now managing to swing the idea of some flatmates living together into a "household" and then using their "household" income to support affordability.

You seem to just say what you like, and then say I don't understand if I don't agree.

What you are basically stating here is this: People sharing cars cause a shortage of cars.

It's ridiculous, hence your "you don't understand" line. For once, you are right. I don't understand how you manage to come up wth this rubbish.

ThrowingStonesAtYou

So even if no more land had been allowed for housebuilding in the last 40 years, given that the population has increased 10% in that time, you are saying that a 10% increase in population for a static volume of housing should result in a trebling of prices. So if the population goes up to 71m in 2033 as predicted, which is a 15% increase from today, you are suggesting the prices will be go up what, 5 fold? So the average will be £1m each? Ok then.

Does this guy have motor neurone disease and can't move away from his computer or what? This barrage of crap articles seems to have been ongoing for months.

Mr.Brown_4

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Did you get bored after just 2 posts on hpc Mewbie? I read the one about you being banned on here. Touching.

Do feel free to try again though, I'm sure they'll accept you eventually.

I love this association with your veneered Mewbie. You guys must have loved him / her very much. I don't mind the instant acceptance this mistake brings, but is it beyond your imaginings that there could be more than one other poster out there in the world of the internet? I appreciate you may see similarities - perhaps an ability to spell or to mock - maybe an occasional grammatical slip up shared by me and the other poster.

But sadly I am not Mewbie. I am a humble new starter, eager to learn about the ways of the house price fanatacism.

nearlynew

And McTittish, along with the other HPI cheerleaders, has still not been able to answer this question..............

Why do they say that it has always been the case that some people cannot afford to buy a house, yet think it is bad when people get repossessed?


It is a circle they cannot square, so to speak.

Graham_Devon

nearlynew wrote: »

And McTittish, along with the other HPI cheerleaders, has still not been able to answer this question..............

Why do they say that it has always been the case that some people cannot afford to buy a house, yet think it is bad when people get repossessed?


It is a circle they cannot square, so to speak.

LOL, actually, very true!

Howcome Hamish is so against welfare, but pro stimulus and pro welfare when it comes to talking rents?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

What you are basically stating here is this: People sharing cars cause a shortage of cars.

No Graham, I am saying a shortage of cars would force several things to happen.

1. Car prices would rise.

2. More people would share cars.

3. People that shared cars would club together to buy one, using two incomes not one.

4. Prices would then rise further, as dual income owners can afford to pay more than singles.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Howcome Hamish is so against welfare, but pro stimulus and pro welfare when it comes to talking rents?

Stimulus is not welfare..... it's a stimulus. It stimulates growth. Preventing future welfare.

I do not support benefits of any kind, beyond a few years safety net for those that have paid in.

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

No Graham, I am saying a shortage of cars would force several things to happen.

1. Car prices would rise.

2. More people would share cars.

3. People that shared cars would club together to buy one, using two incomes not one.

4. Prices would then rise further, as dual income owners can afford to pay more than singles.

Yes.

Your problem came when you used flatmates (I know you didnt say flatmates, but this is the easiest term) as the people who would club together to buy a house and calling this household income to back up the point you were trying to make.

Any flatmates in their right mind would not enter into a 25 year mortgage term with upwards of 2 people. And I think you are well aware of that but have come a little unstuck now.