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14th October 2021, 12:58 | #12 | |
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Landowner Acreage owned in England Acreage woodland Forestry Commission 489,814 414,293 National Trust 474,641 84,433 MOD 397,098 60,311 Crown Estate 264,233 (landward acreage only) 40,558
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14th October 2021, 13:48 | #13 |
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what about the church I thought they had a fair bit of land and property?
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You didn't upset or offend me Ian and I am glad you have found somewhere that meets your needs and are now settled.I was just making the point that this 'Gazumping' happening across the UK has a knock on affect right down to basic starter homes which become out of reach for many first time buyers.You were in the fortunate position of having sold a property in the south were then able to buy something of far better value for money further north,but in other cases where people want to move locally it again pushes those properties out of their price range.Your new house would have been professionally valued by an estate agent so that should have been the asking price and no more.It would be one thing if those with the deepest pockets only fought among themselves but their actions have serious consequences all the way down to starter homes.I would bring in legislation that properties could be sold for no more than the asking price with an intention of being fair to all. I mentioned earlier that the government have fueled this housing boom with record low interest rates and stamp duty holidays,the real culprit is the lockdowns which created so much pent up demand.
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Would that force the initial selling price up? We put our first offer in not knowing what other offers if any there had been. The estate agent came back to us asking for our best and final offer advising he had other offers in the same area. We decided to up the offer. I dont think guzumping took place as no offer was excepted and then new offers put in... as far as I know. We wanted to move, lockdown got in the way but you seem right, lockdown has got others moving due to lack of space, too much noise what ever and they are moving out of town. It is difficult, I understand you and I hope you can understand where I am coming from. Your suggestion would perhaps help some but not others. The one or both of the Channel Islands I think have a rule or at least did have a rule, could not sell to non island born people. Estate agents, surveyors, solicitors, moving companies all coined the money in and then what about the building / DIY trade, all these people moving into houses and looking to do work to them. I have to hope that should I ever move I can recover not only the purchase price but money spent on the property macafee2 |
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My 2 penny worth (probably not worth that!). "Afordable" houses at the planning permission stage usually reduce in numbers when paper comes to bricks and mortar. After the first folk have bought an Affordable house it goes on the open market at "un-affordable". There is regularly a bit in Private Eye about property in the UK being bought by those who do not live in the UK through tax havens and avoid stamp duty or whatever. We are host to a large number of immigrants for whatever reason they come here; financial, persecution in their home country etc but the UK is a densely populated over crowded island and I dont think more folk are really needed. There have been complaints about losing cheap labour with BREXIT but cheap labour/low wages removes the incentive to automate etc. Before Covid a lot of firms "needed" people to work in offices; may now work from home. This could develop into a long ramble but think the gist is clear. Those who complain there are not enough folk to pick asparagus etc should get out there and do some picking or get busy with a harvester design. A long toem ago a combine harvester had a driver, 2 men on the back bagging the wheat/barley or whatever. The sacks were then dumped on the ground and a tractor with driver, two on the trailer and two on the ground collect the bags. Now its just a combine driver who discharges the grain into a trailer.
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Under normal circumstances it would not raise the initial valuation,but these are not normal times.If the estate agents had believed they could get away with bunging an extra 50K on the price they would have done it.I believe they were as surprised as the rest of us at the demand created by people not being able to move during the lockdowns.I certainly didn't hear about people outbidding each other and paying way above the asking price pre covid.
Every cloud and all that if you are an estate agent
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So that says it all then, not much has changed since the Norman invasion, no wonder people have nowhere to live, afterall the Crown need more than a quarter of a million acres of land in order to do their weekend deer hunting.
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