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Rents soar to (another) record high
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Time for rents to be regulated. Too many greedy slumlords in the private sector.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0
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Time for rents to be regulated. Too many greedy slumlords in the private sector.
Slums? You think that introducing rent controls will increase the quality of properties for rent :rotfl: When will people like you realise that regulating rents will decrease the quality of rental properties?Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Ahem.
New builds...
Mortgages....
Both showing only small improvement over the last few years.
The correlation is remarkable.
I think you have put the cart before the horse
If new builds crash so do transactions and mortgage approvals as 100,000 fewer new builds results in some 350,000 fewer transactions and mortgage approvals.
So build more and Mortgage approval will go up not the other way around
PS have a look at French mortgage approval vs new builds.0 -
Maybe the Government will do a 'Help to Rent' scheme as this was successful with Help to Buy so I'm told?0
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Maybe the Government will do a 'Help to Rent' scheme as this was successful with Help to Buy so I'm told?
Wouldn't that just be housing benefit?Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
You need to earn to be earning about £18k to rent a studio flat round this way. £21k for a 1-bed flat.
You rarely see jobs advertised at those rates!0 -
Corbyns maiden leaders speech today laid out his hopes for a Labour Mayor to bring rents down. The whole speech was focused on handouts, redistribution, benefits, helping the worlds poor, basically the man wants your income and assets to give to an army of willing recipients.0
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Corbyns maiden leaders speech today laid out his hopes for a Labour Mayor to bring rents down. The whole speech was focused on handouts, redistribution, benefits, helping the worlds poor, basically the man wants your income and assets to give to an army of willing recipients.
A vote winner.
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Over the last few decades housing supply has not increased. Infact it has decreased relative to the population.sure way of expanding supply?
Houses are not being built to be rented out. If you regulate rents it will have no effect on housing supply whatsoever.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0
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