Britains's growing population will push house prices up

dinkylink

http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/nov/02/britain-growing-population-will-push-house-prices-up


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cells

its been doing so since 2000

in the 1990s the number of homes built exceeded the population growth

michaels

dinkylink wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/nov/02/britain-growing-population-will-push-house-prices-up


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The Pope...RC?

Even with GDP/head flat more people per house means more income to support house prices, mortgage lending restrictions mean that is more likely to happen through rental than OO.

jacko74

It's amazing how many people are still naive enough to believe that UK house prices are a result of traditional supply and demand, market forces etc.

Current house prices are nothing to do with FREE market forces and are a result of government policy... QE, ZIRP, HTB etc

All designed to distract the simpleton masses from realizing just how screwed the wider economy and whole financial system is... keep all the gullible mugs happily distracted with seemingly never ending HPI.

Generali

jacko74 wrote: »

It's amazing how many people are still naive enough to believe that UK house prices are a result of traditional supply and demand, market forces etc.

Current house prices are nothing to do with FREE market forces and are a result of government policy... QE, ZIRP, HTB etc

All designed to distract the simpleton masses from realizing just how screwed the wider economy and whole financial system is... keep all the gullible mugs happily distracted with seemingly never ending HPI.

Thank you for coming along as a brighter soul. Can you help me understand the housing market and what will happen please?

CLAPTON

jacko74 wrote: »

It's amazing how many people are still naive enough to believe that UK house prices are a result of traditional supply and demand, market forces etc.

Current house prices are nothing to do with FREE market forces and are a result of government policy... QE, ZIRP, HTB etc

All designed to distract the simpleton masses from realizing just how screwed the wider economy and whole financial system is... keep all the gullible mugs happily distracted with seemingly never ending HPI.

so population and housing supply play no role at all?

jacko74

CLAPTON wrote: »

so population and housing supply play no role at all?

Yes they do play a role in a market that isn't subject to massive state intervention.

It really didn't take me long to draw out the usual HPI happy clappers did it.

Just calm yourselves down by going and watching a couple of episodes of the entirely factual HUTH... then everything will be well in your world again.

caronoel

jacko74 wrote: »

Yes they do play a role in a market that isn't subject to massive state intervention.

It really didn't take me long to draw out the usual HPI happy clappers did it.

Just calm yourselves down by going and watching a couple of episodes of the entirely factual HUTH... then everything will be well in your world again.

Uh oh!

Looks like another nutter has escaped from housepricecrash.co.uk

:money:

gazter

jacko74 wrote: »

It's amazing how many people are still naive enough to believe that UK house prices are a result of traditional supply and demand, market forces etc.

Current house prices are nothing to do with FREE market forces and are a result of government policy... QE, ZIRP, HTB etc

All designed to distract the simpleton masses from realizing just how screwed the wider economy and whole financial system is... keep all the gullible mugs happily distracted with seemingly never ending HPI.

these add to the issue, but the fundamental is a growth in demand for properties. Not just in a growing population but in the changing patterns of households.

Go to even medium sized cities and small houses will have every room occupied, people on top of each other. We've had about fifteen years of staggering population growth.

And increase of six million, about 10% of the population. That outweighs any government ponzi scheme.