House Prices: New Record High - Nationwide +1% MoM +5.3%YoY

IveSeenTheLight

Thrugelmir wrote: »

In the post GFC era. The construction industry shed some 200,000 jobs. There is a shortage of skilled tradesman. Not least bricklayers now. To rebuild a workforce will take some years. In addition there's a shortage of production facilities to manufacture materials such as bricks and roof tiles. One brick manufacturer has only just recently used up it's stock piled bricks from 2008. As a consequence is investing again in ramping up production. Factories take time to construct and make operational.

If there isn't the climate post election for business to invest for the long term and training is given the neccessary focus to. Then the situation won't improve noticably. Governments can only provide the framework.

Post war was a very different era. With ex-serviceman seeking work. A far better equipped generation too. With far better level of skills.

Is 5 years insufficient to put this in place?

How long does the government need?

I'm sure that any sane person could come up with a solution, instead of soundbite excuses

IveSeenTheLight

CLAPTON wrote: »

In case you haven't noticed, the NOes won the vote and Scotland is still in the UK

So the Scottish situation is relevant and those in Aberdeen are of particular interest to all of us.

Presumably you don't know anything about the Scottish situation : no surprise there as you seem to know nothing about Scotland at all, but maybe some-one who knows Scotland can tell us whether the 'government' building 200,000 homes will affect Scotland?

Oh Clapton, if only you would do your research before making accusations.

Housing Statistics for Scotland - All sector new build

In the last 4 years from 2010 - 2014, there was 61,336 new builds completed.

With a population of 8.3% of the UK, the ROUK, should have completed 738,988 properties in the same period.

Maybe you could answer why the RoUK have not completed proportionally as much as Scotland has in the same period?

michaels

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Oh Clapton, if only you would do your research before making accusations.

Housing Statistics for Scotland - All sector new build

In the last 4 years from 2010 - 2014, there was 61,336 new builds completed.

With a population of 8.3% of the UK, the ROUK, should have completed 738,988 properties in the same period.

Maybe you could answer why the RoUK have not completed proportionally as much as Scotland has in the same period?

Of course for whatever reason ( ) Scotland has not attracted nearly as much net migration as rUK over the last few years so in reality if you look at house-building compared to household formation Scotland is considerably further ahead.

Any data on how housing shortfall levels compare between the two countries?

IveSeenTheLight

michaels wrote: »

Of course for whatever reason ( ) Scotland has not attracted nearly as much net migration as rUK over the last few years so in reality if you look at house-building compared to household formation Scotland is considerably further ahead.

There still has been significant migration to Scotland, so I'd have to check the figures, but of course if you are correct that the nett migration is lower in Scotland, then you do make a very good point that Scotland is helping more to tackle the housing shortage issue

michaels wrote: »

Any data on how housing shortfall levels compare between the two countries?

You can get a number of the data sets here

Live tables on house building

The direct comparison you may be looking at is here
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/405147/LiveTable209.ods

Although my link in the previous post was for Scottish housebuilding only