No sympathy for people inheriting such properties. I have noticed the market round where I live is stagnant. A lot of properties listed and not selling. Yes, again, people wanting too much for them, but it does feel like we're reaching a bit of a crunch with house prices.
Same here and I suspect you are right on property prices.
I agree too. A lot of for sale signs round my neck of the woods for properties that 12 months ago people would be fighting to get offers in for and would sell within the week. Now completely sticking at what I’d say aren’t grossly inflated prices for the area, considering what people were paying.
The market is gumming up I think as people feel less financially secure, and I think there might be a marked decline in prices over winter and into the new year.
Where I am looking in South Ayrshire they are selling like hot cakes and well above valuation, mental.
A relative’s daughter has just sold her flat in Glasgow for 15% over the asking price.
Yes , crazy stuff. Just hoping my two sell above value to cover moving to expensive area.
I hope she enjoyed owning the Libs . Another example of a Trump voter who was happy to see others lives destroyed but is now in tears and shocked that her Venezuelan boyfriend and father of her child is going to be shipped off .
She’s also doing the rounds on Tik tok begging Trump and his loathsome children for help .
I hope she enjoyed owning the Libs . Another example of a Trump voter who was happy to see others lives destroyed but is now in tears and shocked that her Venezuelan boyfriend and father of her child is going to be shipped off .
She’s also doing the rounds on Tik tok begging Trump and his loathsome children for help .
No sympathy for people inheriting such properties. I have noticed the market round where I live is stagnant. A lot of properties listed and not selling. Yes, again, people wanting too much for them, but it does feel like we're reaching a bit of a crunch with house prices.
Same here and I suspect you are right on property prices.
Hmm. I wonder; son-in-law has just put his house on the market. At a price that, for the area, doesn't look too bad to me.
Yeah, but will he get any takers?
The estate agent is confident, but then of course he would be! Particularly just having had the instruction.
However, son-in-law is not in any hurry.
My daughter is in the process of selling and buying, but the process is so protracted and with the ending of caveat emptor sellers are having to answer many questions on the pre contract enquiry forms that can be difficult, ie undertaken some minor building work without building regulations or a poor EPC
Then of course the survey which highlights other issues with time consuming responses
Her sale and purchase seem to be coming together but that has been since March when the sale was agreed
I hope she enjoyed owning the Libs . Another example of a Trump voter who was happy to see others lives destroyed but is now in tears and shocked that her Venezuelan boyfriend and father of her child is going to be shipped off .
She’s also doing the rounds on Tik tok begging Trump and his loathsome children for help .
I just can’t muster any empathy or sympathy for Trump voters who are getting what they voted for and now whining about it .
I can imagine why she thought a politician saying they would do something didn't mean they would do it. See: almost every politician ever.
She can cry as much as she wants . As Coach D said at the end “ I don’t give a damn”. I have sympathy for her kid and all those that didn’t vote for this .
The country is becoming ungovernable. Both far left and far right are promising the moon on a stick . Most of the public are in denial and refuse to accept the reality . I love France and have lived there but there’s a refusal to even accept that they’re fast approaching a complete meltdown in the finances .
The one good thing about French politics is that it makes ours seem relatively reasonable by comparison.
Yes I’m afraid the French don’t want to accept that some things might have to change . And the far left and far right are busy trying to score political points and duping the public . It’s going to end in tears .
To be honest I don't see much difference here in the UK
Difference here is Starmer has a big Labour majority in Parliament, while Macron faces a French Parliament where the far left have most seats but neither they, the far right nor the centre right and Macron's party combined have a majority
A big parliamentary majority which couldn't cut £4bn from benefits is not a real majority at all.
If Reform wanted an actual issue of salience to campaign on, rather than their manufactured obsession with small boats, one cause they could do a lot worse than adopt is the abolition of standing charges for gas and electricity.
They have absolutely skyrocketed under the price cap nonsense and under Labour despite previous promises to offer other options are still going up.
They are also the most inequitable part of the bill because you have to pay them and there's almost no variation between companies.
I will admire that as they make up around 50% of my annual energy bill I find them especially aggravating but they are a monstrous imposition.
But you have to admit that it is bollocks-mongering. Over lunch I heard GB News fulminating about a price HIKE !!!.
2% is not a hike when inflation is higher. As the Times puts it in the text:
The rising cost of paying wind farms to switch themselves off has contributed to a 2 per cent increase in household energy prices from October, taking a typical annual bill to £1,755.
Ofgem, the energy regulator, said that the bigger-than-expected £35-a-year rise in the price cap for the final three months of the year was “driven by an increase in electricity balancing costs”, accounting for £15 of the rise.
I was explaining to Mrs. F earlier that wholesale energy prices had fallen, and that the increase was due to energy companies’ increased costs. Her reaction was “so it’s going to pay shareholders dividends”.
It's also because Red Ed has loaded more net zero tax into bills.
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Martin has written to the UK Home Secretary calling for an investigation into whether Reform’s Zia Yusuf has broken terrorism laws.
My liberal political sympathies are well known but the suggestion in this letter that proposing a post-election government policy constitutes "support" for a proscribed organisation is idiotic.
No sympathy for people inheriting such properties. I have noticed the market round where I live is stagnant. A lot of properties listed and not selling. Yes, again, people wanting too much for them, but it does feel like we're reaching a bit of a crunch with house prices.
JRM in the video I posted earlier suggested buyers are waiting to see if stamp duty is abolished.
Liberal Democrat MP Mike Martin has written to the UK Home Secretary calling for an investigation into whether Reform’s Zia Yusuf has broken terrorism laws.
I've paid the first instalment of cash for my eldest's student accommodation (doing an MSc). Of course the company - in a large group of companies - is flagged as a scammer by my bank. To be fair, after the shenanigans with two previous student accommodation companies, scammer is right...
Tories very nearly in 4th there. Labour close to the teens. And this is yougov
I expect Labour will slip into fourth place behind the Tories after the proper launch of the new party.
I actually doubt that. Potential Fruit&Nut voters have probably already left.
I think the Green vote will get a hammering.
There are probably quite a few Labour voters who are waiting to see what profile Your Party actually adopts - I'm one, and I'm chair of my CLP and an ex-MP for 13 years. If the new party is another quarrelsome left-wing splinter group, I'm not interested. If it's serious and mostly positive, then I'm a potential convert. A good deal depends on the decision on leadership. Collective leadership rather dodges the question and leaves the profile issue unresolved. Corbyn is much the best-known figure currently linked to it and I'd be happy with him but he has demonstrably an on-balance negative image, and he's getting on a bit (though I'm 75 so shouldn't talk). But an alternative figure is currently unknown. The best would probably be an attractive newish figure as leader, with Corbyn as chair, giving an element of continuity but also a fresh element.
Can you say why you think we need an alternative left of centre party to the one we have at the moment under Starmer? If Corbyn gains traction it 'll be bad news for Labour
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Then of course the survey which highlights other issues with time consuming responses
Her sale and purchase seem to be coming together but that has been since March when the sale was agreed
Warning have the sick bags ready