Reply to: UK House Prices Hit All Time High of £247,000

[SueEllen]

Kill stamp duty. job done.

When they removed the 1% rate temporarily it just caused prices to rise for the lower end of the market.

The solutions are:
1. Build more houses with appropriate facilities i.e. doctors, schools
2. Encourage firms to move away from the SE

[lilelvis2000]

Incentivise companies and the public sector to move out of the south east, what are the alternatives ?

Kill stamp duty. job done.

[BrilloPad]

Housing boom and retail are the only things keeping the economy afloat. Well, that and QE.

[Churchill]

There is a lot of social housing in london, if residents were offered to give up their 2 bedroom flat for a 3-bedroom semi up north I am sure many would take up the offer.

What about employment?

There are plenty of people who live in the North and commute to the South for work. The motorways and railways are heading towards gridlock!

[vetran]

You obviously haven't been listening to the news in the past year - "Bedroom tax".

Everyone in social housing wants as small a place as possible.

In addition a lot of people still in social housing in London and the SE work in the local area - or where do you think our postman, cleaners, hospital porters etc live?

the bedroom tax spare room subsidy and the benefits cap.

Both good initiatives if implemented correctly.

Unfortunately the councils dug their heels in and cut everyone's benefits for their spare room without any mercy to make an example of the government.

You realise the 'Bedroom tax' is actually an extension of a 2008 New Lie policy applied to those in subsidised private tenancies? So if you get a council or social house and pay £80-£100 a week for a 3 bedroom house and have a spare bedroom you have to pay the extra £10-£20 yourself?

If you have a private tenancy and have a spare bedroom you have to pay the extra £60-£80 yourself thanks to New Lie?

The real problem is that outside the south east there aren't enough jobs. If created some then people would want to move.

[Doggy Styles]

The Guardian

This really is not a good thing at all.

That link is to the Torygraph.

And that page has been deleted, so I don't know where that figure comes from. Seems very high for the whole UK.

Otherwise I agree, the Guardian really is not a good thing at all.

[RedSauce]

You obviously haven't been listening to the news in the past year - "Bedroom tax".

Everyone in social housing wants as small a place as possible.

In addition a lot of people still in social housing in London and the SE work in the local area - or where do you think our postman, cleaners, hospital porters etc live?

I am not saying everyone, but i know a few people who are in council flats in london (Angel) who would love to move out of London. The girl I am referring to is in her situation for reason not of her own making, she has 2 wonderful children who are are forced to share a bedroom, she struggles to further her career as if she can't afford to take an entry level job as she would lose her housing benefit and have to pay £296pw rent. The area is very middle-class, the majority of private residents send their children to private schools as the local comprehensives are well below national average.

[scooterscot]

- or where do you think our postman, cleaners, hospital porters etc live?

Don't worry. I have a feeling the postal service shall be increasing it's prices shortly to compensate.

Londoners will have to start cleaning their own homes. This could get ugly.

Hospitals will soon be all private anyway, porters will soon become Environmental Control Officers, ECV for short on £100k

[SueEllen]

Confusingly, the average house price is also £170K, according to a different survey.

One survey must be using the mean and the other the median.

[RedSauce]

Confusingly, the average house price is also £170K, according to a different survey.

We just need to make the use of the term "ladder" a crime. Call it "house price tight rope", or anything else to discourage the seemingly inevitable panic fuelled boom.

I call it a debt ladder, for this reason I am out.

[SueEllen]

There is a lot of social housing in london, if residents were offered to give up their 2 bedroom flat for a 3-bedroom semi up north I am sure many would take up the offer.

You obviously haven't been listening to the news in the past year - "Bedroom tax".

Everyone in social housing wants as small a place as possible.

In addition a lot of people still in social housing in London and the SE work in the local area - or where do you think our postman, cleaners, hospital porters etc live?

[VectraMan]

Confusingly, the average house price is also £170K, according to a different survey.

We just need to make the use of the term "ladder" a crime. Call it "house price tight rope", or anything else to discourage the seemingly inevitable panic fuelled boom.

[RedSauce]

There is a lot of social housing in london, if residents were offered to give up their 2 bedroom flat for a 3-bedroom semi up north I am sure many would take up the offer.

[Mich the Tester]

Incentivise companies and the public sector to move out of the south east, what are the alternatives ?

Public sector's spread all over the place AFAIK. As for companies, there's been a lot of that in the past.

Reminds me of Not the Nine O'Clock News, which perhaps makes me an

Failed in Wales - Not The 9 O'clock News - YouTube

[amcdonald]

That sounds a bit like social engineering and I don't really think it works well.

Incentivise companies and the public sector to move out of the south east, what are the alternatives ?