Generation Whine

FTBFun

abaxas wrote: »

Who cares about BTL, just build the houses we need and let the market decide.

Who determines how many houses are necessary and who will build them?

abaxas

FTBFun wrote: »

Who determines how many houses are necessary and who will build them?

Just open up planning. The market will then decide.

FTBFun

abaxas wrote: »

Just open up planning. The market will then decide.

The market will decide to build shoeboxes and shoddy monstrosities. Is that what you want?

Generali

FTBFun wrote: »

The market will decide to build shoeboxes and shoddy monstrosities. Is that what you want?

Funny how it only does that in the UK.

The lack of competition for new builds caused by the difficulty of getting planning permission is wrecking another part of the UK house market IMO.

New build houses in most countries is of a very high standard.

ILW

FTBFun wrote: »

The market will decide to build shoeboxes and shoddy monstrosities. Is that what you want?

I think you mean "executive urban living spaces" they seem to be building plenty at the moment.

FTBFun

Generali wrote: »

Funny how it only does that in the UK.

The lack of competition for new builds caused by the difficulty of getting planning permission is wrecking another part of the UK house market IMO.

New build houses in most countries is of a very high standard.

I disagree due to our population density, especially in the South East.

Generali

FTBFun wrote: »

I disagree due to our population density, especially in the South East.

With which bit please?

FTBFun

Generali wrote: »

With which bit please?

Oh sorry! Your second paragraph.

ash28

Quote:
Originally Posted by ILW
There are thousands of houses across the country which can be bought on a £30k salary. What is all the fuss about?

I hope that is a joke, if not surely we don't need to answer that.

It isn't a joke - it depends where you live - if you live in our neck of the woods (Berkshire) there is nothing available for someone on a £30k salary. If you live in the likes of Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire etc, there certainly are plenty of decent 3 bed houses for a £100k or less.

Funnily enough I was looking at 4 bed detached houses on Rightmove this morning and there were 2 properties that caught my eye.

One is this in Lincolnshire at £220k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26982430.html

and the other was this down the road from us for £450k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-14663541.html

They are identical houses built by the same builders.

To say there is no affordable housing in the UK is daft - because there is. It just may not be in the area where you live or would like to live.

Generali

FTBFun wrote: »

Oh sorry! Your second paragraph.

I have experience of living in 3-4 countries, France, Oman, Australia and the UK.

One of those places has new-build houses that are generally speaking of poor quality. One of those places has very restrictive planning policies.

It's hard to buy a new house in the UK that isn't built by a volume builder unless you're buying at the top end of the market. The reason is you need to submit detailed plans and employ a lawyer to argue the toss very expensively for you in the UK, that isn't the case in most countries.