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The dysfunctional UK housing market.
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
More than likely it's around £550 - £600. Which is around 35% of average take home pay.
Cheap by historical standards.
Plenty of rent increases ahead, methinks....;)
I sometimes wish I lived in that bubble you call your world.
The one where you have no kids. 100k a year. Company paying all your fuel to and from work, and literally every price rise being good news, as somehow, whether its houses, food, oil, or increase in immigrants to the country, it will be financially advantageous to you.
Cost of raising kids and the problems surround dual working households seem to pass you by as you crack open your next £100 bottle of plonk.
Problems of living on anything other than over the average wage, and living as a couple both earning over average wages seem to simply pass you by.
Anyone mentions any product, and you have a better one.
If something isn't quite what you want, the bank of mum and dad are there to help you purchase something you can't afford yourself, meanwhile, you can preach to the pesants below you how they should all join forces and sleep in rotation on the sofa.
Must be a lovely little world. I'm not jealous, before the accusation, just pondering what it must be like. Obviously we've figured out that it requires large blinkers to be worn at all times. But I dunno...maybe thats a price worth paying for being better than everyone else in literally anything and just seeing every price rise as good.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH;44787866]More than likely it's around £550 - £600. Which is around 35% of average take home pay.
2 bed properties for rent within 5 miles of Watford:
£300 to £500 per month 2 properties
£500 to £700 per month 10 properties
£700 to £900 per month 216 properties
£900 to £1250 per month 676 properties
£1250 to £1500 per month 144 properties
£1500 to £2000 per month 32 properties
Do bulls ever stop to think about what they are writing.
And before some muppet writes in to say that they have found a 2 bed flat in the outer Hebrides for £300 a month, remember a high proportion of people live in the South East and Watford is a very unfashionable part.0 -
2 bed properties for rent within 5 miles of Watford:
£300 to £500 per month 2 properties
£500 to £700 per month 10 properties
£700 to £900 per month 216 properties
£900 to £1250 per month 676 properties
£1250 to £1500 per month 144 properties
£1500 to £2000 per month 32 properties
Do bulls ever stop to think about what they are writing.
And before some muppet writes in to say that they have found a 2 bed flat in the outer Hebrides for £300 a month, remember a high proportion of people live in the South East and Watford is a very unfashionable part.
Have you ever been to Watford Town Centre on a Saturday night?0 -
2 bed properties for rent within 5 miles of Watford:
£300 to £500 per month 2 properties
£500 to £700 per month 10 properties
£700 to £900 per month 216 properties
£900 to £1250 per month 676 properties
£1250 to £1500 per month 144 properties
£1500 to £2000 per month 32 properties
Do bulls ever stop to think about what they are writing.
And before some muppet writes in to say that they have found a 2 bed flat in the outer Hebrides for £300 a month, remember a high proportion of people live in the South East and Watford is a very unfashionable part.
Jeez monkeyboy, are you for real??? :eek:
Only 15% of the UK's population live in the South East.
85% live elsewhere, which is why the averages quoted to you earlier from multiple sources of around £600 to £700 for all houses (and less for flats) are correct.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
And to compare your London/South East rents to wages.....Workers in London earn 50% more than employees in other parts of the UK on average, the GMB union has found.
Full-time workers in London earn an average of £46,000, compared to the UK average of £31,300, the GMB found.
The lowest annual salaries were in Wales, the North East and Northern Ireland, where it was £25,550, the GMB found using 2008 National Statistics.
The biggest earners were in the City of London with an average pay of £82,000 per annum.
The top 50 areas for wages included London's 27 boroughs along with Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Bournemouth, Surrey, Slough and Aberdeen.
And even in Aberdeen, one of the highest earning places in the UK, you can rent a decent 2 bed flat for £750 a month, or £450 if you're willing to drive 40 minutes.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
UK average £31300 and London £46000 ha ha ha ha ha0
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UK average £31300 and London £46000 ha ha ha ha ha
Actually that's low. 2008 numbers....;)
Wages are up a good few percent since then. :cool:“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Jeez monkeyboy, are you for real???
Only 15% of the UK's population live in the South East.
85% live elsewhere
Calm down Hamish. You don't need to be rude. And by the way, I think your 15% stat is wrong.0 -
Calm down Hamish. You don't need to be rude. And by the way, I think your 15% stat is wrong.
South east england 8 million population
http://www.neuralmap.com/archives/population-density-england/
62 million people in the UK.
8 million in South East England.
Pretty much spot on 15%..... A tiny minority of the total in the UK.
You London-centric people really need to wake up and realise you're not representative of the UK as a whole.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »South east england 8 million population
http://www.neuralmap.com/archives/population-density-england/
62 million people in the UK.
8 million in South East England.
Pretty much spot on 15%..... A tiny minority of the total in the UK.
You London-centric people really need to wake up and realise you're not representative of the UK as a whole.
Hiya Hamish.
What % of the population lives in aberdeen city centre I wonder? :rotfl:0
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