Can we now have separate boards for 'House Buying and Selling' and 'House Renting' ??

cwcw

Fire_Fox wrote: »

The 'Debate House Prices & The Economy' board is clearly labelled and used as a discussion board, this one is a fluffier advice/ suggestions/ signposting/ support board. The Debate board is hidden from newbies deliberately to stop trolling and reduce arguments but it's still quite dog-eat-dog.

And if you rename it property we'd be overrun with queries on commercial property, this is meant to be a domestic board AFAIK. Housing rather than houses, technically.

Ok, then "Homes" rather than just Houses.

G_M

Richard_Webster wrote: »

Certainly separate boards for Scotland and Northern Ireland would be a help as would separating renting from buying/selling but I am not sure separating buying from selling or freehold from leasehold is necessarily a good idea - the issues can end up getting interrelated and then you don't which board to look at.

Agree Richard - but I don't think Firefox was seriously proposing this. I suspect it was 'reductio ad absurdum'...

jazabelle

Fire_Fox wrote: »

The 'Debate House Prices & The Economy' board is clearly labelled and used as a discussion board, this one is a fluffier advice/ suggestions/ signposting/ support board. The Debate board is hidden from newbies deliberately to stop trolling and reduce arguments but it's still quite dog-eat-dog.

And if you rename it property we'd be overrun with queries on commercial property, this is meant to be a domestic board AFAIK. Housing rather than houses, technically.

Agreed with the first section - I read this board daily, but am not interesting in the sniping and arguing etc that goes in the Debate Section. Mixing the two would not work, as they're quite different.

mrs_motivated

cwcw wrote: »

There are separate boards for "House Buying, Selling & Renting" and "House Prices". If House Prices isn't part of buying and selling, I don't know what is. I would therefore suggest:

- setting up a separate "Property Renting" board and moving all renting related threads there
- renaming the current board to "Property Buying and Selling"
- merge the Debate House prices board into "Property Buying and Selling"

Note the use of the word property, since flats are covered as well as houses.

The "economy" element of the current House Prices board could be moved into a new board altogether, as it covers such a wide range of things, not just house prices, that it deserves to be a separate board completely.

I think this is an excellent idea!

slopemaster

cwcw wrote: »

There are separate boards for "House Buying, Selling & Renting" and "House Prices". If House Prices isn't part of buying and selling, I don't know what is. I would therefore suggest:

- setting up a separate "Property Renting" board and moving all renting related threads there
- renaming the current board to "Property Buying and Selling"
- merge the Debate House prices board into "Property Buying and Selling"

The "economy" element of the current House Prices board could be moved into a new board altogether, as it covers such a wide range of things, not just house prices, that it deserves to be a separate board completely.

I agree with this