House prices rose 7.3% this year, average now almost £250k

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Psycho Sonny said:
why do you need to build cities from scratch?

people are unwilling to move as it is yet you want to enforce it?

you can buy a flat in cumbernauld for £10K.

rather than build a city from scratch why don't they all move to cumbernauld?

the average house price in Scotland is only £150k
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Pretty much every point you tried to make here is wrong. Well done.
 
HACO said:
And you can buy acres of land in the middle of Sudan for £100. We need to build where people want to live, cities within vicinities of areas that people want to live in. Just because people don't want to live in Cumbernauld doesn't mean new cities within 1 hour of London won't be attractive.

UK's housing shortage is in millions according to any report you want to read. 10 cheap flats in the middle of nowhere doesn't solve it as much as you want to pretend it does.
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So you want to keep building around London and inflating the London bubble?

Great solution.

People need to move to where they can afford to live.

I'd love to go buy a £10 million home in Vancouver at high point.

Guess what? I can't afford it or near it so I don't.

I live where I can comfortably afford to live.

People need to get a grip that there are cheap homes out there problem is they want to stay in London where everyone knows it's expensive.

Would you eat in a £500 per meal restaurant every day?

No you would eat Tesco meal deal for £3.

It's the same with houses. Live where you can afford to buy.

As for jobs I know plenty of folk in Cumbernauld who have decent jobs even earning double the UK average.

There are homes in Cumbernauld that are also £400k as well as £10k.
 
m@rty said:
You keep making the same point about how people can just buy £10k or £20k dumps that even your local crackhead would turn his nose up at.

Stop as it’s just not realistic.
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They don't need to buy the £10k property there are better properties available for more.

You can get a decent flat in springburn for £90k.

Or you can get one in anniesland for £110k which is walking distance into the city centre. So plenty of jobs available
 
If a cleaner in a Hotel in London cannot afford to live in London they should move to Cumbernauld, so every cleaner in the country will be based in Cumbernauld because they should live where they can afford. Got it.
 
Janesy B said:
If a cleaner in a Hotel in London cannot afford to live in London they should move to Cumbernauld, so every cleaner in the country will be based in Cumbernauld because they should live where they can afford. Got it.
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It's better than what people are suggesting that a cleaner should be able to afford a house comfortably in the most expensive part of the UK.

I don't understand London's pull the place is an overpopulated dump. You want to visit someone 5 miles away it's 40 mins stuck in traffic.

Sounds like great fun. Where you have to pay stupid prices for anything. Like £100 to take your car into the centre and park it for the day.

If more people decided to clean hotels elsewhere they would live much happier lives.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
It's better than what people are suggesting that a cleaner should be able to afford a house comfortably in the most expensive part of the UK.

I don't understand London's pull the place is an overpopulated dump. You want to visit someone 5 miles away it's 40 mins stuck in traffic.

Sounds like great fun. Where you have to pay stupid prices for anything. Like £100 to take your car into the centre and park it for the day.

If more people decided to clean hotels elsewhere they would live much happier lives.
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And following on from this, hotels in London would have to start paying a higher wage if they wanted to attract cleaners
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
I lived 6 years in Stoke on Trent in a 3 bed detached I bought in 2013 for £112,500.
You just have to accept where you can and where you cannot live.

I work with people in Derby who earn £50k+ and still claim they cannot afford a house. It is all about priorities and choices.
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Or you could just take Sonny’s advice and buy a £10k hovel.

Psycho Sonny said:
They don't need to buy the £10k property there are better properties available for more.

You can get a decent flat in springburn for £90k.

Or you can get one in anniesland for £110k which is walking distance into the city centre. So plenty of jobs available
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Nobody wants to stay in Springburn either, why do you keep listing all the scummy areas like it’s a good idea to buy property there.
 
m@rty said:
Or you could just take Sonny’s advice and buy a £10k hovel.

Nobody wants to stay in Springburn either, why do you keep listing all the scummy areas like it’s a good idea to buy property there.
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You have to start off somewhere though :).
Buy what you can afford and build from there.
The market does not permit moving into the desirable house in the desirable area. It is just how it is sadly.
 
visibleman said:
Never been to the capital? Should have said @Psycho Sonny; little tip, jump on the public transport and/or underground, it's pretty good in the city :D
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I've unfortunately been several times and I hate it more each time.

Why would I want to get on public transport full of peasants?

I want to be able to go directly to wherever I want like I can here and within minutes not hours.

I also don't want to have to queue for 3 hours to get into a car park.

Guess what I live in a major city and I never use public transport.

Yeah when I go on holiday to Bangkok I'll use their sky train. Same with Vancouver.

London though I've used it twice as usually I travel in group and being squashed into crammed carriages whilst trying to have a good time with friends and family doesn't work. I'm usually there for a wedding or a special event.

So no I'm not going to be jumping on a train in a kilt with 20 other folk. We will take 4-5 cars instead.

Especially if I'm going to visit family elsewhere. I would likely need to get 3 or 4 seperate journeys to get there. Whereas hopping in a car is one.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
I work with people in Derby who earn £50k+ and still claim they cannot afford a house. It is all about priorities and choices.

It is rubbish that housing is so expensive, in some areas to the point where owning your own is not a possibility. However, you either do it or you don't i.e. your first house cannot be in the most desirable area. There is no housing building spree coming.

If you are working towards a promotion whilst wearing Primark clothes, driving a 10 year old Focus and spending your spare time watching Netflix and visiting a cheap gym, then I have sympathy.

If you're driving a leased Golf R, wearing a £40 T shirt, go on holiday twice per year, £50 per month phone contract etc. whilst pratting around age 30 in a £20k per year job then I do not have sympathy.
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Great post. Totally agree with this. Far to many people overspending on restaurant meals, trips to the pub, expensive cars, regular mobile phones upgrades etc etc the list goes on and on.

Yes the previous generations were able to get on the property ladder quicker than today. But then they didn’t spend 24/7 on crap. Their day to day life was what we would now consider dull and borning.
 
HEADRAT said:
We need new generation of "council housing", the amount of money being paid to private landlords is criminal.
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Why do you think they aren't building any? half of the MP's will have multiple houses and are probably renting them out. What incentive do they have to cut immigration or do anything that drives prices down?
 
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