Movements/Protests against house prices

marlot

Guildford has always been expensive. even when working near there in a very well paid job, I had to live further out. try camberley or fleet.

SG27

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

It's difficult to move your entire life.
It's difficult to afford a house where you live.

Choose your 'difficult'.

I did, I saved for nearly a decade and bought a house.

Surrey_EA

Landofwood wrote: »

It's not even very nice.

Depends where we're comparing it to.

Landofwood

Surrey_EA wrote: »

Depends where we're comparing it to.

Well you're in Surrey, so I'm sure you'll agree that Guildford is one of the least attractive towns in the county. The outer villages are nice. I'd live in Godalming.

gazter

chopper78 wrote: »

Oh god, £200k doesn't even get you this.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35090478.html

Someone mention Cumbria?
You can get this one for £270k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53553293.html

Surrey_EA

Landofwood wrote: »

Well you're in Surrey, so I'm sure you'll agree that Guildford is one of the least attractive towns in the county. The outer villages are nice. I'd live in Godalming.

Surely not less attractive than, Camberley, Redhill, Byfleet, Croydon or Addlestone?

There are some rubbish bits of Guildford, but very few large towns can say any different, but I'm not sure I can agree that it's one of the least attractive towns in Surrey.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that, but I'd still rather live in Guildford than Godalming. Although I agree Godalming is a beautiful town, and the villages around Guildford & Godalming are all rather lovely.

Landofwood

Surrey_EA wrote: »

Surely not less attractive than, Camberley, Redhill, Byfleet, Croydon or Addlestone?

There are some rubbish bits of Guildford, but very few large towns can say any different, but I'm not sure I can agree that it's one of the least attractive towns in Surrey.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that, but I'd still rather live in Guildford than Godalming. Although I agree Godalming is a beautiful town, and the villages around Guildford & Godalming are all rather lovely.

Good point, sometimes I forget how big Surrey is.

jimpix12

Landofwood wrote: »

There is no right to home ownership. If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. Do you post the same complaints on the Ferrari message boards?

Home ownership has always been reserved for the wealthier.

House prices are only as high as they are because people can afford it. You can't. Instead of moaning about the government, how can you change things for the better to realise your home ownership dream? Work harder? Career change? More training? Think positively, rather than blaming.

I initially brushed this off as a troll post but then I saw your other posts on the forum. Good grief - you're actually being serious. OP, you just aren't working hard enough. Or maybe you weren't born at the right time, but that's your problem as I'm alright jack.

To answer your question, a good forum (with a few bad apples) is https://www.housepricecrash.co.uk.

johnbusby

I often see people trot out the 'supply and demand' line when these type of posts come up but that's an overly simplistic view. Supply and demand works great when there's an open and free market but what part of the UK housing market is open and free?

Government intervention is everywhere from the historically low interest rates, help to buy, failure to encourage house building to the generous housing benefit rates paid to landlords which stoke the rental market and increase competition from would-be BTL landlords. The sad truth is that property ownership has gone from something to which everybody can aspire to the preserve of the rich within one generation at the same time that local authority housing stock has been decimated and security for tenants has been eroded.

If your okay with that then that's fine. I'd just prefer that an older generation, who happen to be extremely powerful politicly, weren't pulling the ladder up and refusing the younger members of society access to all the benefits they had (free university education, good pensions, access to benefits etc.) while at the same time branding them lazy and f eckless...

ultrak3wl

People don't need a Ferrari but they do need a place to live. It's a valid argument to say people should be happy with a Ford instead but we're already in the situation where people work like crazy and mortgage their souls but can still only afford a rusty 1979 Lada with a million miles on the clock and no seats.

When do you draw the line under something and call it i unfit for purpose and irretrievably busted? That's the UK housing market.