Nabby81

Mine weren't feckless they just all died young , same as grandparents

Luton , clearly When you can get this lovely ''penthouse '' overlooking a main road and outside carpark .. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-58285410.html

Was just outside the local Connells big signs up advertising BIG SALE Every house on the window has a sale sign and a reduction

Look at the comments they all want lower prices I like this one especially

Agreed and its something like this Labour /Corbyn will sieze on the grab a large share of younger voters !!

So the average increase on a mortgage a month is about the price of a large Pizza from Dominoes and yet people are acting like its the end of the world !!

Least the chicken shops / bookies don't cover the town with signs advertising their services to sell your home to London buyers on their books ..

I have the opposite where I am, loads of them opening up they are rivalling chicken shops and betting shops for volume on the high streets

Up to 2mil customers and only 26k left is still not bad considering how bad the issues were , I would have thought there would have been a far higher amount .Financially though they have taken a big hit as has their reputation

Reductions still happening but the pace of new flats ie investment opportunities springing up shows no sign of stopping Luton apparantly is the one area bucking trend on BTL returns so people still piling in .HTB shows its very obvious price inflation here 2 bed flats around 180-200 , a new build 2 build is 280 plus . As well as flats alot of new developments of new build 4/5 bed houses ranging from 500-800k again HTB heavily advertised

Lost 26k customers , gained 20k ..so could of been alot worse

I would agree that another vote is needed based on what Gov agree's , how that works is anyone's guess though ..another ref or GE based on Parties campaigning on stay or leave ?

On same day 6000 jobs are going at HOF and Poundworld looks like going bust with more job loss's but yeah the labour market is just great at moment ....

Just got a letter from Halifax informing me HTB Isa rate is dropping from 3.5% to 2.25% from August ..

Again with CPW there are cheaper alternatives on line and next day delivery , my most recent phone I ordered Friday afternoon I had it Saturday Morning no need for me to go into a branch. I hate going into phone stores as the assistants jump on you as soon as you get in there another reason I prefer to buy online

You also have the Ireland 2040 proposals that aim to grow the population by a million "Given the demographic structure of Ireland and fertility and mortality trends, faster population growth would require higher international net immigration into Ireland. This would only arise if Ireland were sufficiently attractive economically and if migrants could find accommodation at affordable prices. This implies that the average age across the population will increase more rapidly than has been the case and that unless immigration increases, overall population growth will slow. https://www.esri.ie/pubs/RS70.pdf

Guy at my work just remortgaged to extend house as needed more space as kids still at home and doesn't look they they will be moving out anytime soon

Indeed , when did it become Luxury to not have a separate Kitchen !!

Bedfordshire is chock full of developments and some of the prices I have seen are insane , from my house alone within about 500meters there are 2 new developments a further mile or so down the road there is a huge development on the old vauxhall site. I live in Luton but work in Hemel / Bracknell and in those 3 areas if you told me there is a lack of building I would imagine you are blind , as you can't move without seeing some kind of development going on especially ''luxury '' apartments

I wouldn't say Luton is struggling yet , have seen some reductions but plenty still selling , new EA offices opening .Luton is still picking up the London people moving out or london workers just deciding to commute from further away.

Which means the Government is staring at a massive funding disaster in years to come as there is millions who won't have that much or even close to it

Yeah on 17k a year pointless working when childcare fee's are not far off 1k a month even if she did stay in work MMR would stop them as MMR takes into account the child care fees for affordability

Now at a 4 month low $1.33

Well done , managed to Tank the pound again ..

Another way to look at this is these jokers repeatedly claim those renting can't afford to own when actually it seems the renters are paying double the monthly costs to rent over owning ..