Property prices (again)

[Sysman]

Well, they've made a pretty good fist of it to date. They have started to offset it in other ways, like offering longer and longer terms. And if you can't repay in your old age, the house goes to the bank. A cunning plan.

And that's if the gobmint don't nick it first via a combination of care costs and inheritance tax.

Anyone here remember Tony Benn's* idea back in the 1960s to nationalise housing?

Here it comes, but by the back door.

* He was probably known as Anthony Wedgewood Benn back then.