Housing Boom on the Way....

Cyberman60

padington wrote: »

1) Cameron didn't make the UK a magnet, it already was a magnet.

2) The rest are effects created in most part by creating a housing boom, which the greatest effort of all has been spent to create. It was always seen as the first fire that needed lighting by Cameron and Osbawne hence the most effort was given.

It was already a magnet for benefits and those that want us to be part of a caliphate. Thankfully, that is being rolled back thanks to UKIP. :T

padington

Cyberman60 wrote: »

It was already a magnet for benefits and those that want us to be part of a caliphate. Thankfully, that is being rolled back thanks to UKIP. :T

Welfare state reform has been moronic, apsolutly stupid piece of dabbling around the edges so far. Why pay anyone anything for sitting on their backside? It's the most stupid of systems. The reform has been laughable.

Ham faced Cameron has been nothing but weak on this. The lot of the them are just tweakers, no real visionaries.

Apart from farrage of course, who's vision of leaving Europe is a terrible one.

fordcapri2000

We might not need to build more homes, immigration has played a massive part in rental and even foreign ownership growth in the UK this past 15 years. The UK is a magnet right now, but things can very quickly change, and quite often do.

Who is to say that another part of Europe won't experience strong growth for whatever reason, even one of the old Eastern European might show the way in the future. Who know's, the UK if it is not already might become very immigrant unfriendly, even to the ones already here. One of the main parties might have to do a deal with UKIP which in turn will give us a referendum this year with a possible exit and a mass goodbye to many eastern europeans.

I would love to see mass home building in the UK, but what I do not want to see is the type of mess that happened in Spain along with BTL's rushing for the exit.

buglawton

We might change our official language to Esperanto, now that would stop the UK being a magnet.

Landofwood

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Look on any house price chart. In around 2008/09 the graph of house prices suddenly headed north to a point 2 or 3 times the original. Why did that happen? That is the root cause of the problem,that and scarcity of land.

This doesn't make any sense. I'm gonna walk away from crazy town now.

TickersPlaysPop

At last some people who are making sense on the housing markets problems... also a few things I don't agree with ....

1) UKIP doesn't equal people leaving the UK
2) We have A LOT of land to build on, but do you mean land that the owners are willing to allow to be built upon?

Also, where will the money come from to build? The organisation Shelter has already suggested a good idea... use local authority pension fund money.

So often it is claimed on these boards that it is the local authority planning system that has held back building.... that is another thing I do not agree with.

The banks and big business are in control of so much of our country.... look there for the answers to why we have an over inflated housing market and have been doing very little to calm it down. In fact there are policies that have been put in place to do just the opposite.

chucknorris

stator wrote: »

Large initial lump sum from gov.uk followed by reinvesting the proceeds of selling off the other 50% on the open market.

When you say the Gov, you mean taxpayers (there is no money tree!), well you haven't got my vote (and probably not my tax, in the unlikely event that it was voted for).

Crashy_Time

fordcapri2000 wrote: »

We might not need to build more homes, immigration has played a massive part in rental and even foreign ownership growth in the UK this past 15 years. The UK is a magnet right now, but things can very quickly change, and quite often do.

Who is to say that another part of Europe won't experience strong growth for whatever reason, even one of the old Eastern European might show the way in the future. Who know's, the UK if it is not already might become very immigrant unfriendly, even to the ones already here. One of the main parties might have to do a deal with UKIP which in turn will give us a referendum this year with a possible exit and a mass goodbye to many eastern europeans.

I would love to see mass home building in the UK, but what I do not want to see is the type of mess that happened in Spain along with BTL's rushing for the exit.

BTL`s rushing for the exit should do it, no need for mass building. Government knows this and will never do a mass building programme in the UK.

westernpromise

TickersPlaysPop wrote: »

This is all rubbish and lies. There will always be a convenient excuse for not meeting targets for building or first time buyers.

This is all way way too late, and labour were in charge for the lion share of the house price inflation.

I'm glad this is becoming a serious election issue because I have been banging on about it for ages.... Especially protecting some new properties for sale to first time buyers only to segregate competition from buy to let... I.e. Demand.

How can there be a state target to build houses for first time buyers? It's a nonsense. The state builds houses to let out, not to sell on.

The private sector has taken on the state's role in providing rental accommodation to those who used to be council tenants.

westernpromise

Cyberman60 wrote: »

Indeed, while we remain in the EU we are a major attraction for economic migrants from poorer EU countries, so we need maybe 150,000-200,000 homes to be built annually just to stand still.
Migrants also have more babies so we can expect the population to be 70-80 million in 10 years or so. Totally unsustainable !!

Vote UKIP to control immigration and maintain availability of resources to UK citizens. :T

UKIP are a corrupt and greedy children's crusade.