Tory manifesto proposes measures to boost house prices

sKiTz-0

I've been saving for years to pay off my debts and build up a house deposit, and now I start getting some money together the goalposts move so I need an even bigger deposit and cant get a mortgage big enough to own anywhere that isn't run down/in a bad area. I couldn't afford a house 4 years ago when I started working full time after being a student, and I am no closer now. In fact I'd have been better off never having a job and being a benefit scrounging scumbag. If the Tories get in power and bring this kind of drivel in I swear on my life I shall be quitting my job and taking the easy life. By the time I've been there 5 years, the way things are going, they'll probably just give me the whole house for free. What an utter utter joke.

Rant over.

Spartacus_Mills

Turnbull2000 wrote: »

I warned we were in for this on HPC last year. Didn't go down well!

http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Housing.aspx



I'm not sure which one is the worst. Though giving social tenants a free deposit worth 10% of their property whilst other people have to work their !!!! off to save it up is particularly galling. We're talking five figures handouts here. W*nkers, the lot of them.

The first two are utter bullsh!t, the final one is fine. Devolving power back to the local level is fine but as for the other two. Nonsense, utter nonsense. The 10% thing is little more than a transparent bribe.

Blacklight

sKiTz-0 wrote: »

I couldn't afford a house 4 years ago when I started working full time after being a student,

We're supposed to be surprised by this? Was there a point in time where anyone straight out of education was able to borrow tens of thousands of pounds just like that?

It does sound a little bit like the typical Gen Y whining about the fact they're owed a lavish lifestyle for nowt that people always talk about. Sorry.

Really2

sKiTz-0 wrote: »

I couldn't afford a house 4 years ago when I started working full time after being a student, and I am no closer now.

I had been working for 7 years before I purchased a house in 2001 and that was partly down to my partner(now wife) having the deposit money and a full time job also.
So although 4 years may seem a lot I would say historically (past 20 years) it is not that long a time at work before buying a house.

Blacklight

Really2 wrote: »

I had been working for 7 years before I purchased a house in 2001 and that was partly down to my partner(now wife) having the deposit money and a full time job also.
So although 4 years may seem a lot I would say historically (past 20 years) it is not that long a time at work before buying a house.

I was 25 when I bought my first place. My friends all thought I was mad 'buying' a place at that age. I was certainly the first person I knew at that time to be making a big commitment like that.

Have things changed? Are people no longer happy playing The Young Ones in rented flats for a bit?

doire_2

Does this mean the majority of bulls will now vote tory having blew labours trumpet the past few weeks?

Really2

doire wrote: »

Does this mean the majority of bulls will now vote tory having blew labours trumpet the past few weeks?

Not sure where you get the idea I may be a Labour supporter from.:rotfl: (or a Bull for that matter;))

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

(or a Bull for that matter;))

Glad to see you have swapped to being a bear.

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Glad to see you have swapped to being a bear.

Not sure how possible 30% falls (from peak) and stagnation was ever bullish TBH.

But then, this is not like the real world is it.

robin_banks

Turnbull2000 wrote: »

I warned we were in for this on HPC last year. Didn't go down well!

http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Housing.aspx



I'm not sure which one is the worst. Though giving social tenants a free deposit worth 10% of their property whilst other people have to work their !!!! off to save it up is particularly galling. We're talking five figures handouts here. W*nkers, the lot of them.

Keith Joseph back in the 1970's advocated giving away council houses, citing repairs and benefits as a reason.

Currently many councils are giving inducements to people to give up a tenancy.

Right-to-buy is more or less dead.