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  1. On 23/02/2018 at 9:53 AM, Fence said:

    Did you hear on the radio this week about how that warranty was not currently working out too well regarding the replacement of flammable cladding?  Or was it the management company/freeholder (the original builders?) in that case?  A right ding dong seemed to be going on between the two and unclear if anyone (and if so who) should do something.

    As an aside (nothing to do with the above), just read the NHBC annual report.  Very interesting:

    http://www.nhbc.co.uk/AboutNHBC/AnnualReports/

    I really tried there - downloaded it, opened it, scrolled through, scanned some pages - I'm sorry, I just don't have the kind of brain that can deal with that sort of information. What's very interesting about it? Or are you, I dunno, an actuary or something?!

    But yes, I did hear about the cladding replacement. What did that end up as - 30 grand per unit? Ouch.

  2. 9 hours ago, Slimline said:

    2 of them, but still crazy to think what some people will do to get on the so called "ladder".....

     

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/5634870/how-friends-are-clubbing-together-to-buy-homes-in-a-bid-to-beat-rising-property-prices/

    So it's a 2-bed. I want to know whether they went for a Woodlark Apartment (prices start at 451,000, so at 'just over 500,000' they might have 'bought' the top end of that range) or a Hawthorn Duplex (starting at 538,500). https://www.barratthomes.co.uk/new-homes/greater-london/h441801-hendon-waterside/. You have to put your email in to get a brochure and I couldn't find the dimensions. In any case, they get an "absolutely free" 10-year warranty. All sounds like an unbelievable bargain to me.

    edit found them

    Woodlark Apartment Total area: 695 sq ft

    Hawthorn Duplex Total area: 775 sq ft/72 sq m

    So that extra nearly 90 grand buys you an additional 80 square feet, it's got to be worth going for the top end, it's going to be worth 900 grand in 5 years, after all.

  3. 6 hours ago, Houdini said:

    I found this via Zerohedge (added to provide the appropriate warning)

    https://medium.com/@dreilly35/apocalypse-now-londons-property-crash-has-begun-4bd489e594ce

     

    That is gorgeous - and he seems to have written for some, what do we call them now, proper publications, he's not just some nutter sounding off. A tone that matches the catastrophe of it, so rare! Lovely bear food, yummy scrummy in my tummy.

  4. 2 minutes ago, frankvw said:

     

    If you have never seen it before, a good feature length documentary on the monetary system around the time of the big crash. It's a bit of a roll call of zerohedger's but well made all the same.

    Thanks for this, will watch it this evening. I think I saw this bloke in a money documentary a few years back throughout the entirety of which he gesticulated with a pencil. Has someone told him to ditch the pencil? I think, in his mind, he's still holding that pencil.

  5. 19 minutes ago, wsn03 said:

    Was  sent a video clip, found the link. 2 of the best minutes I've spent today. Finally someone tells it right.

    Im interested to know more about this guy

    https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DhYzX3YZoMrs&ved=0ahUKEwjjvIHV77TZAhWrAMAKHfXpAHUQwqsBCCUwAg&usg=AOvVaw0c0WXzOxYT8xOAggA3bK4L

    Wow, wonderful, so someone was talking about it in the EP 5 years ago - funny how stuff like this doesn't get picked up and discussed in the msm. A ukipper but what a total star, has really cheered me up, go Godfrey!

  6. 8 hours ago, happily renting said:

    As long as you’re over on mumsdebt,

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    check out OH with unrealistic expectations, in which (and I can’t believe I’m not making this up) the other half “is the one being greedy when you think about it, wanting to pay a lot less for a house that is worth a lot more.”

    Man alive, really wishing I hadn't clicked on these mumsnet links, what a shit bunch of people, look at this:

    "If he dares to breathe anything about greedy sellers or stupid buyers again, not a court in the land would convict you .... (and those 'stupid buyers' have property which he doesn't)."

    'Hahahahaha kill your husband for not being willing to pay enough for a house hahahahaha'. WTF?

    Am going to leave this thread and go nose about for something more edifying, I don't need to know there are people like this around.

  7. 7 hours ago, Yvonne said:

    It seems everyone on that site thinks they have had it hard, I suppose if some of them have lived through previous crashes and huge interest rates they may have a point.  Still I’m surprised by the lack of basic empathy.  They sound like a bunch of callous older women.  Could it be that most people once they personally are sorted just don’t care, nor interested in or have any real understanding of economics....

    Me too, what a bunch of hard-faced old sods. Perhaps they are just very insulated from how things are for other people because they live in big houses with big gardens and drive everywhere. One says "WHAT the ****** is 'white privilege'??", come on, really? What planet are they on? 'What's all this bleating about racism, sexism and poverty, I'm trying to watch bake-off.' I hope a poor person gets in through the window and nicks their magimix.

  8. 21 hours ago, Still Dews said:

    I heard this. It was grim. The most shocking aspect for me was the police's attitude to the crime that the landlord was committing against the tenant couple. From her telling of events there was clear evidence of the crime and the police would have been able to find more evidence if they looked into it. People are definitely prosecuted for voyeurism. So either the officers didn't know the law, or for some reason were just completely dismissive of this crime. 

    You are right the whole thing had a Dickensian London feel to it. They did a good job of linking it to poor tenants rights but I'm always a bit uneasy by placing everything (ie any aspect of a dysfunctional housing market) in the context of a shortage of housing, but that's because I'm not completely convinced by it.

    Presumably the landlord in question is continuing to act like a complete perv to his current tenants with impunity.

    Agree completely. The 'shortage' idea seems to have a life of its own, it's unstoppable - one of them meme things.

    Also agree about the impunity, that was the most horrible bit imo - that he knew he would get away with it and proceeded to let them know he'd been going into their home while they were out by e.g. leaving her knickers around the place. WTF? How on earth can the police not take an interest in this kind of behaviour? Posters here saying they might have a btl themselves possibly  not far from the mark. Alternative explanation - he has a huge btl portfolio in the area and was those two coppers' landlord, too!

  9. On 03/02/2018 at 7:50 AM, Mrs Bear said:

    Just heard this on the news - something about shutting the stable door comes to mind...

    I can't  help wondering whether it's a coincidence that it comes at the same time as McMafia on TV - the reality of global dirty money. 

    Anyone else watching it?  Has anyone else read the non fiction book it was based on?  

    That is exactly the saying that came to my mind, they are 20 years late, tho of course better they're doing something now than nothing.

    I very  much doubt it has anything to do with that TV programme, people have known all along how bad the money sloshing around the world is (and we make a fortune in this country from helping to clean it up). I think what's changed is that we don't have our hands down the Russians' trousers in quite the way we did until fairly recently.

  10. Yesterday's woman's hour had a bit about landlords and tenants. Landlords letting places for sex and one couple's awful experience of finding that their landlord was secretly filming them. The police wouldn't do anything about it. Polly Neate from Shelter was excellent, she kept highlighting that the underlying problem is the fact that tenants can be evicted too easily and have basically no power. Definitely worth a listen. I would say it was a new low for landlords except there's more of a 18th/19th-century feel to it. Didn't post it yesterday because I thought we've all heard enough stuff about shitty behaviour by landlords but it does make a 'good' companion for the guardian article on here about squalid housing. God. Have a nice Sunday everyone.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ppzx4

    edit - it's the first thing on, 1.06 mins in if you really can't wait.

  11. 1 hour ago, TheCountOfNowhere said:

    Are they trying to make people feel bad about gazundering ?

    It definitely looks like it - and aimed at the same part of the brain as 'forever home' and 'the wow factor'.

    Strangely (not), their definition of gazumping is not all coojy-coojy baby-talk for kidults, it would appear that THAT is a perfectly reasonable and grown-up thing to do and does not deserve to have the piss taken out of it...

    "Gazumping is when a seller of a property accepts an* verbal offer on the property from one potential buyer, but then accepts a higher offer from someone else." I mean, what sane person wouldn't?

    https://www.halifaxjargonbuster.co.uk/gazumping/definition

    *edit - sic. I reckon they correctly put 'oral' there to start with but the 15-year-olds in the office couldn't get past that so they changed it to 'verbal'.

  12. Really interesting discussion of housing on today's Thinking Allowed, definitely worth a listen, they gave it the whole half hour seems to be last 20 minutes. I only caught the last half, am just about to listen from the beginning. Thought it was a must for here when someone towards the end was talking about "the way in which precarious housing undermines your sense of being at ease in the world" - amen brother.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k80tg

     

    There was another good one on recently with marxist geographer David Harvey - he's always very good at putting things into words, highly recommend this, too - relistened while waiting for today's to go up. The failure of today's economics to take account of systemic risk, the effect of debt on people - makes you organise your life around it, and of course the nasty manky greedy bloody rich. Didn't we have a discussion on here a while back about marxist economic analysis?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mgj1n

  13. On 18/12/2017 at 4:39 PM, Funn3r said:

    This time last year I was renting in an HMO owned by some very dodgy people, and bad enough as a single bloke. Heartbreaking watching fellow tenants with families trying to make things nice for their young ones. 

    Horrific, it's bad enough to have a pet! Oh, I mean, how good of their landlord to give them permission to live there with children, they should be ever so grateful and tugging their forelocks.

  14. On 15/12/2017 at 6:37 PM, BearsEye said:

    I was at the end in 2013 and was about to bite the bullet and buy, then Carney and HTB came long.

    To say they've destroyed the plans i had for raising my child is an understatement, i have pure hatred for these people yet the lemmings continue to back the majority of this filth in Brexit, a nation full of traitors.

    Welcome to the board, BearsEye - I was struck that there wasn't a lot of response to your post, I think it's because of the 'traitors' comment, lots of anti-EU feeling on here. I'm on the fence, I hate racism but I also hate the EU - as a nasty driver of the evils of neo-liberalism. Didn't vote to leave but still, I don't think everyone who did is a lemming/traitor/racist, pick a term, there's just too many people having too hard a time and the EU is not on the side of working people, never has been.

    Anyway, what you're voicing here is something I've heard from friends of mine with kids who don't own a place. I don't have children myself but I understand that the horrible and health-threatening stresses caused by this shitstorm of a housing crisis are hugely magnified if you do. I can't imagine how horrible it is to worry about your kids' futures as well as your own and it's so ridiculous that having a roof over one's head is now the ambition of a lifetime. Take heart, it can't last forever - your children's generation will put it right, if people in their 20s now don't beat them to it, and I really think they might. I'm much too old and knackered to do anything but when it all hits the streets I'll make myself a celebratory pot of tea and cheer them on the telly.

  15. 3 hours ago, TheCountOfNowhere said:

    Most of us were at the end 10 years ago.

    Agreed, at this point it's all so far beyond everything - phrases like 'beyond all reason' are a distant memory. I remember beyond all reason quite fondly. Eee, those mid-noughties, when ye could gerra bedsit over a chippie in Lewisham for two hundred grand, them were the days.

  16. 23 hours ago, Northern Welsh Midlander said:

    They are a bit behind the curve are they not? We knew this the day the SDLT change/S24 was announced.

    God, quite, I found this bit of mealy-mouthed blah the most annoying bit:

    "Buy-to-letters sometimes compete with first-time buyers for property—and they often win that contest, since they tend to have bigger incomes. Lately the buy-to-let boom has been correlated with galloping house prices, which have made it harder for youngsters to get a foot on the housing ladder."

    No shot, really? Thank you, pompous Establishment rag, for delivering to us what was absolutely bleeding obvious fifteen years ago - now you've said it, we know it's true! It's good that even they're writing about it. That's the most positive thing I can muster.

  17. 18 hours ago, ExiledMatty said:

    These charities that pay their top staff more than the PM (that's all of them) can f right off. I would not give a penny to those greedy pretend socialists.

    I agree homeless in London should f off too along with all the spongers who live in zone 1 and 2 on benefits.

    Send them all to the Isle of Man!

    Crap, not another one - aren't there better forums for all of this? Or meetings in woods in camoflage gear or something. You two had really better stay lucky.

  18. 21 hours ago, spyguy said:

    I might be getting grumpier as i get older but my response to homeless in London is basically fux off and go and live somewhere woth a job and affordable housing.

    Moving to one of the worlds most expensive city with no job is a fuxxing nuts idea and should be discouraged - sweepthem up for vagrancy, spray them with water cannins, spike their doorways. Whatever.

    Most tramps go to London for the better begging oppurtunity.

    Spyguy, I mostly manage to ignore your nastier moments but you really blinking push the envelope. Grumpier as you get older? Kinnell, I hope you're 90. People come here because it's a massive city where nobody knows you and you can disappear. Perhaps you should sign up for a psychology course at the university of the third age and try to imagine what it's like to want to disappear.

    BTW when you are thinking (hopefully not saying) 'fux off and go and live somewhere with a job and affordable housing', where exactly did you have in mind? In today's weirdo britain, that's a pretty tricky combo - or are you so busy getting cross with poor people that you haven't noticed things like, oooh, the economy?

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