Reform

[pinkbikini]

Go and look at the figures for population explosion.

Builders couldn't catch up the new arrivals in a hundred years(slight exaggerated)

We dont need to build 1500000 new homes in a 5yr parliament.

Ok. I totally disagree, but that’s your opinion, fair enough. So why are you so worried about the problems for young homebuyers?

 

[CXRAndy]

Because I know the value and pride of owning your own home.

I've rented, but advice from my father told me to buy a house soon as possible, which I did at 20 years old.

Im also a pragmatic businessman , I understand the value of property and the income it generates for our family.

Im not blind to the needs of the British youth, hope they have similar aspirations to get on the property ladder as I once did.

 

[AndyRM]

Orwellian irony at its finest.

 

[Ian H]

The problems with the UK rental market are many: lack of security for tenants; lack of enforcement of basic housing standards; hugely inflated rents (round here they've risen by about 40% in five years); lack of affordable social housing; the unwarranted stigma associated with renting in this country.

 

[pinkbikini]

Because I know the value and pride of owning your own home.

I've rented, but advice from my father told me to buy a house soon as possible, which I did at 20 years old.

Im also a pragmatic businessman , I understand the value of property and the income it generates for our family.

Im not blind to the needs of the British youth, hope they have similar aspirations to get on the property ladder as I once did.

The Kids Are Alright!

 

[CXRAndy]

Do you why they've risen, huge demand because of all the extra people in this country. People are desperate to get a property to rent. My daughter rented in London, she found you had to accept a property over the phone without actually seeing it to secure tenancy, properties are on the for rent tab matter of hours.

Thank goodness she's out of London and owns her own house now

 

[CXRAndy]

The Kids Are Alright!

My kids are

 

[Stevo 666]

There’s also a demand for purchasing properties. Chains exist. If you stifle one level with too many rentals then lower levels are also stuck. It’s creating the demand - a neat trick, but in my eyes part of the problem with the housing market in this country. I know there are many other problems in the housing market, but the hypocrisy of a ‘landlord’ complaining about problems for first-time buyers is a bit much, esp. as he’s using his usual hyperbole to imply that the country is shite and it’s all the fault of ‘others’.

There's a demand for both.

But you should be happy - just Google 'UK landlords leaving the market' or similar and see what is happening.

 

[pinkbikini]

There's a demand for both.

But you should be happy - just Google 'UK landlords leaving the market' or similar and see what is happening.

I’m pretty ambivalent to the plight of landlords. Opening up property purchase availability is a good thing overall IMO. What’s your view?

 

[CXRAndy]

I’m pretty ambivalent to the plight of landlords. Opening up property purchase availability is a good thing overall IMO. What’s your view?

But for some young adults, it's not an available option at that moment.

I rented my first place I left home, but I saved like crazy for 2 years even on my very little wage. I then was able to get a 95% mortgage on my first home

There has to be some rental properties available for young to fledge and find their way.

Rental prices are driven demand for them, just like the housing to buy market.

Comes back to population and it's explosion in numbers

 

[AndyRM]

There's that Orwellian irony again.

 

[monkers]

But for some young adults, it's not an available option at that moment.

I rented my first place I left home, but I saved like crazy for 2 years even on my very little wage. I then was able to get a 95% mortgage on my first home

There has to be some rental properties available for young to fledge and find their way.

Rental prices are driven demand for them, just like the housing to buy market.

Comes back to population and it's explosion in numbers

It's about the relationship between the rich, the land, and the governmental inertia to intervene in that. Think of the histrionics of one Jeremy Clarkson on the thought that the present government should even think of adjusting that in a small way.

 

[monkers]

There's a demand for both.

But you should be happy - just Google 'UK landlords leaving the market' or similar and see what is happening.

There are ongoing problems, and some of those are born of good intentions on the part of the government. But its in tension with another factor that they simply are failing to get to grips with - honest tax paying mortgaged landlords can not compete with cash rich dodgy money launderers, or as some people like to euphemistically call them, ''overseas investors''. Meanwhile renters are deserving of rights, dignity, and a roof over their head.

 

[Stevo 666]

There are ongoing problems, and some of those are born of good intentions on the part of the government. But its in tension with another factor that they simply are failing to get to grips with - honest tax paying mortgaged landlords can not compete with cash rich dodgy money launderers, or as some people like to euphemistically call them, ''overseas investors''. Meanwhile renters are deserving of rights, dignity, and a roof over their head.

Aside from the usual leftie generalisations about landlords, of course all tenants are complete angels and never cause any problems...

 

[monkers]

Aside from the usual leftie generalisations about landlords, of course all tenants are complete angels and never cause any problems...

If you'll take a moment to straighten your toupee Sir, I provided a critique in support of honest tax paying UK landlords.