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George Osborne expected to use Budget to offer raft of help to boost housing market
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292592/Second-time-buyers-offered-95-mortgages-Osborne-desperate-bid-boost-housing-market.html#ixzz2NQpLYj8GThe NewBuy scheme, currently only available to new-build properties, is also expected to be extended to older homes.
Now that would be interesting, but I'm sure they'll find a way to screw it up, so it ends up being just another ineffective token gesture.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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That is in deed a much better graph shame the Daily Mail couldn't find it.HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Look further back....
On the basis that the private sector speculative builders never took up slack we really need to be pursuing other avenues to resolve the issue."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »So more a 'toothpick' than a 'prop' then....
More a waste of time and effort a token gesture."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »Did you post the wrong graph? Because this one is showing £ million, not units.
Based on average house prices being flat or falling slightly doesn't make any difference."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
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Trend has been downwards for some period even before the crash.HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
Never really recovered form 1979:think:"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Removal of Stamp Duty would be nice.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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Removal of Stamp Duty would be nice.
Would wouldn't it
Where would you like the loss of revenue recovered from?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Would wouldn't it
Where would you like the loss of revenue recovered from?
The foreign aid budget.
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Would wouldn't it
Where would you like the loss of revenue recovered from?
Don't care.
Edit: Actually, a renter tax.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
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