Whilst the chancellor is looking to make cuts & tax rises a so-called "loophole" entitles some wealthy second home owners to around £1300 of free taxpayer cash.

The latest figures show 1.62 million people are unemployed, a number which has risen by more than 300,000 since last year. Expected to go up to 2.6 million. Surely house prices are on the rise.

First you buy an apartment at highest price and then get others to pay to make it safe, is it fair? If the price would have gone up would you share the gains? Would the people who already sold at profit before not be asked to return the gains?

Govt policy of "Shared ownership" gives you a small percentage of ownership and 100% of the bills. No wonder housing companies are loving this as they do not need to keep up with the repair. This is extremely important when people only compare mortgage and rents only. Home ownership also comes with repair bills

This is what happens when you push interest rates to zero. Savers start looking for any return then they risk the capital as well. They would never go for loss of capital if they knew what they were getting into.

Bank of England can create new money electronically and the Bank spends most of this money buying government bonds through a process known as quantitative easing (QE). QE is sometimes described as "printing money" but in fact, no new physical banknotes are created. Government bonds are a type of investment where you lend money to the government. In return, it promises to pay back a certain sum of money in the future, as well as interest in the meantime.

Anything for home price inflation. There is no chance of a forced seller, there is no chance of a price fall. So that creates a shortage in the market as sellers are stopped from coming in. So when you have few buyers with restricted supply prices could go up artificially. Not sure what will happen when in six months, the additional payments would need to be made and all the sellers are forced at one time. .