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PricedOut Newsletter, March - June 2008
Newsletter By PricedOut on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:19:24 GMT

PricedOut Newsletter, March - June 2008

Thanks for your interest in the PricedOut campaign, here's our latest news.

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Caroline Flint recently announced the Government's new measures to "support first-time buyers".
By PricedOut on Sat, 17 May 2008 11:16:50 GMT
Caroline Flint recently announced the Government's new measures to "support first-time buyers". http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2008-05-14a.58WS.1&s=speaker%3A10202#g58WS.2
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Home Truths: Are the Government housing fundamentalists?
Home Truths By PricedOut on Tue, 13 May 2008 17:46:24 GMT
Today we obtained a rare unspun glimpse into government housing policy through leaked documents from the current Government Housing Minister fall gal... Caroline Flint MP. Read on to find out more...
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Prescott blames the banks for the housing boom
By PricedOut on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:08:11 GMT

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, has accused Britain's "greedy" banks and building societies of destabilising the economy by fuelling the boom in house prices over the last 10 years.

In an interview with Property Week published today, Prescott said the UK banks had abused the benign economy conditions of the last decade.

So what was he doing for the last 5 years while this was happening? He was coming up with flawed shared ownership schemes and so-called affordable

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Fall in 'over-inflated' house prices inevitable - By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Daily Telegraph - 13/01/2008
By PricedOut on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:43:58 GMT
House prices in Britain are the most over-inflated in the world and a fall in the value of homes is inevitable, leading economists have warned.
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Half of Somerset Land is Unregistered
By PricedOut on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:39 GMT
The government has admitted that about half of the land in Somerset is not registered with the Land Registry. Without this vital information how can the government be sure that the right levels of tax are being paid by landowners? How can the government decide where the right land is for housebuilding?
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Helping key workers into affordable homes in Yorkshire and The Humber region
Media Comment By PricedOut on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:32:29 GMT
Published: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:18:57 - Key workers including nurses, police and teachers in the region are being given new support to help them onto the housing ladder, announced Housing Minister Yvette Cooper.
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Happy New Year for 2008
By PricedOut on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:16:46 GMT
It is now New Year's Eve, December the 31st 2007, and it is time to nail our colours to the mast and make our foolhardy predictions for 2008. Right now you may either agree or disagree with them, but the true errors will creep out over the next 12 months. Please do not take these opinions into account when you are making major financial decisions. Happy New Year!!
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Daily Mail 28th December - Singing Our Song Again
By PricedOut on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:15:56 GMT
In a full page article on page 85 the Daily Mail once again highlights the problems facing First Time Buyers (and the whole UK housing market as a result). A short excerpt has been borrowed just to repeat their points.
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First-time buyers set to rescue house prices
Media Comment By PricedOut on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:13:46 GMT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/12/20/bcnrics120.xml

"Pent up demand from around 1.4m first-time buyers could provide huge support for the softening housing market next year, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors."

PricedOut comments - FTBs and anyone else waiting for homes to become affordable should take this article with a very large pinch of salt. RICS represent surveyors who have a huge vested interest in turnover of house purchases. We wouldn't want surveyors to go out of business but they have been part of the system that has allowed prices to rise out of control and there is anecdotal evidence that some surveyors work in tandem with estate agents to boost prices. Like many other property industry representatives, they also tend to celebrate h ...
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