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Housing market move given Brexit and interest rise

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  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,615 Forumite
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    jimbo747 wrote: »
    We can keep building houses until there isn't a single bit of green belt left, and at some point in the future it still won't be enough. There are plenty of houses in the UK per sq mile, probably too many.

    Problem is population size. Need to reduce population by about 10-20m, ideally by encouraging those in poverty not to have children, and preventing immigration where they're likely to take more out of the system than pay in. Brexit will help solve one of those probelms. Wages will go up, house prices go down, more disposable income therefore less reliance on credit, so less depression, less chance of a crash affecting us and everyone apart from wealthy business owners like me or those investing in property will be happier.
    bob_bank_spanker wrote: »
    What an enormous pile of nonsense. Boeing piling pressure on Trump to stick tariffs on a Canadian company has literally nothing to do with Brexit.

    Is this what this country has been reduced to: grown men weeping about an economic process they know almost nothing about. I'm not sure who the real snowflakes are.


    I believe the message is that we won't be able to expect any favours from the Americans. You're right, nothing to do with brexit, but some indication that life may not be easy post brexit.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • Tiners
    Tiners Posts: 232 Forumite
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    jimbog wrote: »
    You will get a better debate in the debate forum:
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=149

    You definitely won't get a ''better debate'' there... it's populated by a small but very vociferous clique of vested interests, property investors, recent buyers etc... who all hold the general opinion that never ending, policy driven, rampant house price inflation is great and has no drawbacks what so ever.
  • glasgowdan
    glasgowdan Posts: 2,967 Forumite
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    Tiners wrote: »
    You definitely won't get a ''better debate'' there... it's populated by a small but very vociferous clique of vested interests, property investors, recent buyers etc... who all hold the general opinion that never ending, policy driven, rampant house price inflation is great and has no drawbacks what so ever.

    You've accounted for a small portion of the posters in that forum... I guess you belong to the other, more vocal/less informed portion! :)
  • Thrugelmir
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    theartfullodger wrote: »
    We've already had the 1st direct trade deal: HUGE extra tariffs of British exports to USofA of Bombadier series C.

    I weep for my country.

    Bombardier is a Canadian Company. ;)

    PS. Boeing employs 19,000 people in the UK.
  • Thrugelmir
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    Skag wrote: »
    I live in London and have observed the last weeks that new properties are coming in the market for lower prices that used to say half a year or one year ago.

    London is an international market. Speaking to some Canadians in Eire a few weeks ago. They now call Vancouver, Hongcouver. As money from Asia is now driving the locals out. While everyone concerns themselves with Europe. The middle class of Asia continues to grow in size. The world order is changing.
  • jimbog
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    You probably won`t actually :rotfl:

    Judging by the responses so far I think the OP would ;)
    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
  • Crashy_Time
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    London is an international market. Speaking to some Canadians in Eire a few weeks ago. They now call Vancouver, Hongcouver. As money from Asia is now driving the locals out. While everyone concerns themselves with Europe. The middle class of Asia continues to grow in size. The world order is changing.


    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/15/vancouver-average-house-price-january-2017_n_14775268.html
  • Crashy_Time
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    glasgowdan wrote: »
    You've accounted for a small portion of the posters in that forum... I guess you belong to the other, more vocal/less informed portion! :)


    There are about six or seven regular posters.......all singing from the same hymn sheet ;)
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    There are about six or seven regular posters.......all singing from the same hymn sheet ;)
    did they drive you away or have you failed to convince them of your brand of nonsense?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Tiners wrote: »
    You definitely won't get a ''better debate'' there... it's populated by a small but very vociferous clique of vested interests, property investors, recent buyers etc... who all hold the general opinion that never ending, policy driven, rampant house price inflation is great and has no drawbacks what so ever.
    No it's not many just don't subscribe The HPC rhetoric.
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