if you know any Brighton fans, tell them its a good time to buy a big house

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Eze Peasy at Anfield....

The people to blame for the current crisis are, oddly enough, the people blaming Brexit.

The Bank of England was telling us that inflation would not be a problem and did not raise interest rates when they should have.

Now they keep raising the rate without waiting for the effects of previous rises to kick in.

Governments have screwed farmers and manufacturers in this country for years, and now we are too reliant on imports. That drives up costs in times of trouble.

Perhaps the idiots still campaigning against Brexit and deflecting blame should focus on fixing the problems they created in the first place.

The population is rising at an insane rate, and builders deliberately limit supply of housing to inflate prices.

A lot of houses that are built are not affordable for first time buyers or even those looking to move up the ladder, so those that are built don't really help much anyway.

What does happen is people move from London to less expensive areas where they can afford bigger houses.

Where I live, houses are being built everywhere you look. The countryside is gradually being eroded, bigger roads needed, traffic increases, doctors and dental appointments become harder to get and so on.

Welcome to modern Britain, where mass immigration is steadily destroying all the things that were nice about this country.

The issue is though, that if you move, houses have gone up just as much everywhere else. The homeowners are not the winners here, and our kids are certainly not. It's funny to think there used to be a stigma surrounding council houses, yet anyone could get one within a reasonable time. That seems like a different world altogether now.

Red and Blue Army!

Sounds like you live in the same part of the country as me. In my village we have just had two housing estates approved on appeal by HM Government, to go along with the two brownfield sites already approved. Affordable is always thrown at objections but nobody can explain how they calculate affordable and what it actually means. To add frustration, the Last ONS figures (2021?), show that every local authority in the region has had a higher percentage of houses built than increases in population…so where is the need?
My theory is that it is a hidden government policy to build and build as this creates jobs for a whole raft of industries, which means more money for ‘the system’. There is little requirement locally for the houses being built as was confirmed by a trawl of local estate agents who could see that the demand was from people moving out of London. So who’s filling the vacant properties in London?

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

Demand for properties, particularly rental properties, in London remains astronomically high - this high demand in the midst of relatively low supply of properties, is the prime driver of the explosion in rents of late, more so than legislative changes or mortgage rates.

There are plenty of people filling the vacant properties in London.