buying your first house - impossible!

[securespark]

I had a lovely little 2 bad flat in a mansion block in Madia Vale which I bought for £116K in 89, and sold for £128k in about 94. Now it's worth nearly £1m.

Mrs S had a flat in London. Sold in '99 then the next buyer got bought out by a developer...

 

[gidrae]

Yup, everyone used to sit around at dinner parties (so the stories go) where they were all congratulating themselves at how much their properties were worth, and no one seemed to realise that as the price went up, so did the amount that they then had to find to fund the next purchase. House price rises are great when you want to downsize or cash in, but no good for anything else.

Or remortgage.....

 

[securespark]

You have to keep inspecting each other for white marble flesh.

Or at least, that is what you told the teenage girl you were skiing with.

 

[securespark]

Poor old Rogercon.

Poor old alpine skier nosall, defending his bum buddy jdumb again.

Kin ell.....how old are you two? Shouldn't you both be at school?

 

[Doggit]

They left the school, but not the playground.

 

[gasbanni]

It's hardly suprising given that estimates are around 3.7 million EU nationals live here and approx 1.2 million brits live abroad, so we need houses for 2.5 million.

It's simply supply and demand, thank you Blair you idiot.

"As the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford points out, when the EU expanded in 2004, the UK was one of three countries which opened its borders straight away to workers from the new member states."

https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-migration-and-uk/

 

[transam]

corbyn said he would confiscate houses from those who have a second house that is not lived in ??

JD , Noseall & way r bee , may well have an empty room ?? they could take in some homeless / lodgers After all that is what Socialism is all about ?

I told the local council bloke I was up for it dependant on certain criteria being met , but it was suggested that my criteria was not up to there standards

fell well short tbh well so it was suggested

 

[JohnD]

corbyn said ...

please provide the link to the statement you think you are quoting.

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

please provide the link to the statement you think you are quoting.

A**e end does not do links, they would prove him to be a provider of fake news.

 

[Notch7]

A**e end does not do links, they would prove him to be a provider of fake news.

Fake news from the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ur-would-buy-8000-properties-for-the-homeless

 

[JohnD]

how do you know that's the one Tranny meant?

When did you become his mouthpiece?

 

[bernardgreen]

Levels of homelessness in the UK were “disgraceful” and “wholly unnecessary”, said Corbyn. A Labour government would “immediately purchase 8,000 properties across the country to give immediate housing to those people who are currently homeless”, he said

So similar to the policy in the defunct East Germany Socialist economy. Didn't work very well there. Looked good on the surface, few if any rough sleepers or homeless families in towns and cities. What was much less obvious ( officially denied ) was that homeless families were often moved to places where the houses were.

Housing standards were poor. A family with son 11 and daughter 8 were allocated a two bedroomed apartment, the parents slept in the living room to allow the children some privacy with a bedroom each. Both parents had good jobs and in a different country could have easily afforded a larger home. They were not allowed to have more than their "quota" of living space,

 

[JohnD]

immediately purchase

that's not what Tranny said.

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

... he would confiscate ...

....immediately purchase ....

that's not what Tranny said.

 

[Brigadier]

that's not what Tranny said.

Immediately purchase.........for what amount?
Will JC haggle?