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I'm moving from South East to North West UK and I've just finished my checks on my new landlord to ensure he's getting a reasonable yield so I'm safe.
Based on the price history I think I'm moving to one of the main crash zones!
April 2003 - Bought new
April 2007 - Bought for 31.5% more than 2003 price
June 2009 - Bought at auction for 20% less than the 2003 new price, which is a whopping 39% less than the 2007 price
Landlord is now getting a gross yield of 6.3%
Auction transaction was not in the freely published land registry data as it was a repo, so I had to pay £4 to buy the latest information online. I assume he was a cash buyer as the registry info states Lender(s): None.
Mirror image property next door is currently advertised for sale on the open market at 19% more than landlord paid at auction.
UK House prices: News & Views
in NEWS Commentary, 2021 & Beyond
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I had the TV on yesterday afternoon while he was saying it live in a press conference. My assessment is that it's just a nice soundbite for TV rather than anything real. There's a Parliament seat up for election in Oldham on 13th January after the Labour MP's victory was annulled by a court and the results are going to be pored over by the British media as an assessment of the coalition government as a whole.
If they even had that conversation with the banks and building societies it would go;
David Cameron: Why have you upped your lending standards this much?
Bank: Because our old lending standards got us into lots of trouble, do you want to bail us out again or guarantee our loans?
DC: No
Bank: OK, keep the cheap funding going and you can make us the bad guys for 'Not lending enough'
DC: Fair enough, are we still on for lunch next Tuesday?
Shelter had a good press release today;
http://england.shelter.org.uk/news/january...r_home_on_cards
They did a poll in August and 6% of respondents had paid their mortgage or rent with a credit card at least once in the prior 12 months.