Boomers' House Price Bonanza Barrels Onwards. Young Excluded and Forgotten

chucky

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well you've certainly helped to promote his cause by digging up all these old threads.

What next? Perhaps we can dig up all threads by one-issue repeat offenders Hamish's HPI cheerleading sessions or Sibley's HPC threads, or maybe even the "my interest rate gamble continues to pay off" spam that a chap called RennovationMan used to post (look him up, i think you would get along well with him) and splatter them all over the front page just to make sure all the current threads get lost. At least RT posts some pictures to look at...

Good work, well done. Very helpful.

Who died and left you in charge?

JencParker

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Historically, people in dead end, badly paid jobs have been unable to purchase houses. They rented. As they do now

And were happy rented because it was affordable and they had security of tenure. Renting now gives very limited security if you are looking at a lifetime of renting. As I said, it's unsurprising that far more people are wanting to buy their home as it is the only way they can get some sort of long term security.

chewmylegoff

chucky wrote: »

Who died and left you in charge?

Probably the same person who appointed OffGridLiving as babyboomer obsession regulator, and you with the title of chief troll.

ukcarper

JencParker wrote: »

And were happy rented because it was affordable and they had security of tenure. Renting now gives very limited security if you are looking at a lifetime of renting. As I said, it's unsurprising that far more people are wanting to buy their home as it is the only way they can get some sort of long term security.

You were Lucky to find property to rent it was that security of tenure that restricted the supply of property to rent. So although a lot of people rented it was very difficult in the 70s for someone new to find that rental property.

ukcarper

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well you've certainly helped to promote his cause by digging up all these old threads.

What next? Perhaps we can dig up all threads by one-issue repeat offenders Hamish's HPI cheerleading sessions or Sibley's HPC threads, or maybe even the "my interest rate gamble continues to pay off" spam that a chap called RennovationMan used to post (look him up, i think you would get along well with him) and splatter them all over the front page just to make sure all the current threads get lost. At least RT posts some pictures to look at...

Good work, well done. Very helpful.

This thread was started yesterday

JencParker

chucky wrote: »

And again, in the past home ownership in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was much lower.

Sale of council houses through Right to Buy took place in the 1980s onwards.

Do you want to come back to me when you have your facts in order?

Where did I say it was higher or even the same?

Suggest you get your brain in gear when you read a post.

OffGridLiving

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well you've certainly helped to promote his cause by digging up all these old threads.

What next? Perhaps we can dig up all threads by one-issue repeat offenders Hamish's HPI cheerleading sessions or Sibley's HPC threads, or maybe even the "my interest rate gamble continues to pay off" spam that a chap called RennovationMan used to post (look him up, i think you would get along well with him) and splatter them all over the front page just to make sure all the current threads get lost. At least RT posts some pictures to look at...

Good work, well done. Very helpful.

You're entitled to express your opinions and views on anything on this forum, as am I.

JencParker

ukcarper wrote: »

You were Lucky to find property to rent it was that security of tenure that restricted the supply of property to rent. So although a lot of people rented it was very difficult in the 70s for someone new to find that rental property.

True, it wasn't easy, but it was an alternative, and getting a council house was much easier too. But we have a situation now, where, apart from those who need or want to be mobile, buying a property is the only way to get a secure roof over your head.

ukcarper

JencParker wrote: »

True, it wasn't easy, but it was an alternative, and getting a council house was much easier too. But we have a situation now, where, apart from those who need or want to be mobile, buying a property is the only way to get a secure roof over your head.

There are alternatives now shared ownership for example.

chewmylegoff

OffGridLiving wrote: »

You're entitled to express your opinions and views on anything on this forum, as am I.

Of course. As we all are, even if we have some silly obsession with babyboomers or a need to tell everyone over and over again about our interest rate 'gambles'. You could have probably expressed your opinion done without digging up every old thread and covering the front page with them which in fact just resulted in what you were complaining about actually becoming worse.