Where cuts will hit house prices the hardest

IveSeenTheLight

according to Damian Clarkson, editor MSN

http://money.uk.msn.com/msn-local/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155122722

I'm sure it will spark some debate

1. Oxford
2. Denbighshire
3. Cambridge
4. Middlesbrough
5. Hastings
6. Ceredigion
7. Canterbury
8. Stafford
9. West Dorset
10. Merthyr Tydvil

PasturesNew

This was published elsewhere about 7-10 days ago.

IveSeenTheLight

PasturesNew wrote: »

This was published elsewhere about 7-10 days ago.

Ah sorry, missed it

Davesnave

Well I didn't see it, so thanks.

Ceredigion I understand, because it is so dependent on public sector jobs.

Merthyr Tydfil though....can it get any less desirable?

Don't get West Dorset at all, but if those b'stards who used to terrorise me in Drimpton School are going to suffer, then I'm all for it! :rotfl:

diable

If you have no mortgage then or reliance on the worth of your property then it doesn't matter.

Graham_Devon

diable wrote: »

If you have no mortgage then or reliance on the worth of your property then it doesn't matter.

Oh you have a lot to learn

Loughton_Monkey

Cambridgeshire is interesting.

Many, many, years ago, when I was at 6th Form School - and then University, I used to work in my holidays on temporary jobs for Cambridgeshire Council, at Shire Hall (about 5 years in a row). All of my other holiday jobs were factories or bakeries etc. So this was my only experience of "Office Work".

When leaving University and starting my "Proper Job" (in an office) I had no other frame of reference than Cambridgeshire Council. And so the fact that people worked in an office came as a great surprise. Obviously I was employed (at public expense) to do the 'work' at hand, and the senior people spent most of their time discussing when the tea trolley would come round, what cakes they would have, and gossiping about other departments.

Many years later, I remember Cambridge turning to Labour control, and so left wing were they, that one of their offices in St Andrew's St was re-named "Winnie Mandela House". Now the city is back in Conservative control.

Whether they actually do any work, these days, in Shire Hall is something upon which I cannot comment.

LilacPixie

Surprised no where in Scotland on that list. I live just outside and work in Dundee, biggest employers in that city are local council, NHS trust, Universities (dundee and abertay) and civil service. there is a pension call centre and job centre plus call centre plus HMRC. There are apparently just under 95000 jobs in this city with over 10% of them beng supplied by NHS and local council alone. I wonder if it's the comparativly low house prices here helps. Also does low house prices = lower commercial costs?? Thinking along the lines of say JCP call centre, if its cheaper to run a call centre in Dundee compared to say west dorset then surely the Dundee centre has a stronger chance of being reprieved.

PasturesNew

I was actually seriously considering moving to West Dorset... to look for work and a house.

If I look at the median female full-time salary (as I did only yesterday for that region) it's 50% higher than where I am now ... so I figured I'd be better off moving there than staying here. And house prices were cheaper, with better views.

Looks like the higher wage median would be down to the public sector workers then - and I've never been one of those so always get trumped at interviews by somebody who has "worked for xxxx before". So, it'd probably be an unwise move I guess.

Back to the drawing board then of: where to?

Edit ... hang on, need to check a map, find out whwere West Dorset actually is .... there must be an East too, maybe I was looking there

Edit 2: Nope, it was definitely West Dorset I was looking at . . . now off to find out where East Dorset is.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

according to Damian Clarkson, editor MSN

http://money.uk.msn.com/msn-local/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155122722

I'm sure it will spark some debate

1. Oxford
2. Denbighshire
3. Cambridge
4. Middlesbrough
5. Hastings
6. Ceredigion
7. Canterbury
8. Stafford
9. West Dorset
10. Merthyr Tydvil

Isn't Hastings just about to get invaded by 1 million Iraqis' & Somalians?

I would of thought (following Hamishs' logic) prices will rocket...

PasturesNew

I went to Hastings once, in about 1989. I remember the vertical lift thingy and I went up to Battle and to Leeds Castle.

It's a shame it's known for being a bit shabby/poor/undesirable.