Looking at buying a flat

[White Mouse]

What a joke the prices are, youre looking at 250k for a decent 2 bedroom flat in outer London with good transport links. I remember my dad used to live in Holborn and Farringdon earning 15k a year back in the 80s. Probably be about a million for a studio there now.

The minimum wage really has ****** things up in this country for normal people. BTL empire owners must be laughing themselves to sleep though.

Tbh I think I'd rather just keep paying rent.

 

[White Mouse]

Err yeah it is. Look at what has happened since 1999

Housing benefit/min wage etc etc just increases the cost of living for everybody. BTL empire owners set their rents according to what housing benefit their tenants can get, so what is the point? You could get £10k a week housing benefit and be no better off if you were getting £10 if your rent/mortgage just goes up to accomodate you being able to 'afford' £10k a week

 

[White Mouse]

misleading thread title.

Especially when it turns out to be all the Immigrants fault and not the minimum wage after all.....


going by the OP's usual general litany of blameworthy suspects for the failures and difficulties in his life....

population increase probably has some to do with it as the first poster pointed out but the minimum wage and housing benefit is the real joke in this situation