C4 Dispatches - The British Property Boom

jjlandlord

TickersPlaysPop wrote: »

Houses should be for homes, not profit.

Stop commercial investment in residential property NOW.

Stop non UK passport holders from buying residential property NOW

Shave your head and wear an orange bed-sheet NOW

TickersPlaysPop wrote: »

Councils can use the pension fund money to reduce the risk for the bankers to fund house building

True. Bankers should be kept safe while pensioners (present and future) should bear all the risks!

CLAPTON wrote: »

Peoples of the UK are the envy of most people in the world.

Indeed, and there is quite some human trafficking to satisfy the demand for genuine 'persons of the UK' worldwide.

Wheezy_2

TickersPlaysPop wrote: »

Stop non UK passport holders from buying residential property NOW

As a non UK passport holder, why should I not be allowed to buy a home?

jjlandlord

Wheezy wrote: »

As a non UK passport holder, why should I not be allowed to buy a home?

We've found one! Catch him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo

lukeh23

Wheezy wrote: »

As a non UK passport holder, why should I not be allowed to buy a home?

I think no-one should stop you from buying a home, where you live.

Its more using property as an offshore investment. That is morally repugnant while we have such a shortage of housing.

CLAPTON

lukeh23 wrote: »

I think no-one should stop you from buying a home, where you live.

Its more using property as an offshore investment. That is morally repugnant while we have such a shortage of housing.

We have a housing shortage because we don't build enough properties.
There seems little 'moral' difference between a let property that is UK owned or overseas owned.

Linton

CLAPTON wrote: »

We have a housing shortage because we don't build enough properties.
There seems little 'moral' difference between a let property that is UK owned or overseas owned.

Indeed.

And its not just moral......

Assuming that the foreign owned homes are rented out, if foreign ownership was banned there would still be the same number of people chasing the same number of homes. So there would still be the same number of people who couldnt afford the home they wanted.

Actually things may be worse: it is reasonable to believe that reneted property has a higher population density than owner occupied. So allowing owner occupiers to buy the currently foreign owned rented property would reduce the number of available homes.

getmore4less

Linton wrote: »

Indeed.

And its not just moral......

Assuming that the foreign owned homes are rented out,.........

many are bought and left empty because second hand used are worth less than second hand unused.

getmore4less

All new house built with basements would increase the liveable available sq footage

CLAPTON

getmore4less wrote: »

many are bought and left empty because second hand used are worth less than second hand unused.

it would be interesting to know how many new properties are built and kept in pristine unused condition hoping for future capital growth


it would be interesting to know how many new properties wouldn't have been built except for overseas funding

thequant

Wheezy wrote: »

As a non UK passport holder, why should I not be allowed to buy a home?

Ignore the racists on this thread, it's common for a minority of people in this country to blame immigrants for stealing jobs and homes.

The vast majority of these racists have low IQ's, which is the primary reason for their failure in life to secure a decent paying job and a nice home.

The problem with thick people, is that they are to thick to realise they are just thick.