PricedOut welcomes BBC research findings
12th May 2008
PricedOut - the campaign for affordable house prices, welcomes the findings of today's report commissioned by the BBC (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7395041.stm) that most people do not want to see more house price growth, and in fact many would like to see a fall in house prices.
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Brown's shared equity expansion is not the answer for first-time buyers
4th May 2008
PricedOut, the affordable housing campaign, notes with disappointment Gordon Brown's announcement that he plans to expand shared equity schemes for would-be first time buyers in the near future. This move effectively represents the Government's half-price ticket to negative equity for would-be first time buyers...
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PricedOut.org.uk opposes Budget changes to Capital Gains Tax
10th October 2007
The Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report - issued 9th October - includes a radical overhaul of the Capital Gains Tax system... In doing so, however, the Chancellor has introduced a major incentive for yet more speculative investment in an already obscenely over-inflated housing market...
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PricedOut.org.uk to demonstrate at Property Investor Show
17th September 2007
Priced Out - the campaign for affordable house prices - is organising a protest at The Property Investor Show, Saturday 22nd September 2007, 10:30am, to highlight the plight of the First Time Buyer in the current housing climate.
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First time buyers to protest at Gordon Brown’s Brighton Festival appearance
1st May 2007
Frustrated first time buyers are organising a protest in order to highlight the housing affordability crisis that is gripping the nation. Organised by Priced Out (www.pricedout.org.uk), a web-based campaign group for affordable house prices, the protest aims to highlight the negative impacts of high house prices in 'property hotspots' such as Brighton.
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Aberdeen University launch study into effects of high house prices
14th June 2006
Priced Out are pleased to have been contacted by Dr John Bone and Dr Karen O'Reilly of the University of Aberdeen regarding a new sociological study "On the Treadmill". The study is researching the effect that unprecedented house price increases will have on the current group of 18-40 year olds in the UK.
Find out more about the study and how you can participate...
Priced Out Campaign Moves Up a Gear with Official Launch
10th May 2006
The Priced Out campaign officially launched today 10th May 2006 with a major update to the material on the campaign website. To celebrate the launch we have commissioned another interactive feature, the "How Much Richer Are You" calculator, to partner our extremely successful "Would You Be Priced Out" feature. Now that our campaign site is ready we intend to step our campaigning up a gear, please come and help us by joining the campaign.
Priced Out unveils its Agenda
5th May 2006
Over the last few days a number of key documents have made their way onto the campaign website as we gear up for our official launch. Amongst them are the two documents which details our aims and our blueprint for change "More Homes and Sensible Loans". We look forward to hearing your views on them.
Priced Out launches on the BBC's Action Network
5th May 2006
The Priced Out campaign has launched on the BBC's Action Network as we make progress towards our official launch. Be sure to stop by our Action Network campaign page and vote for us.
Budget 2006 - Call to action
22nd March 2006
The government today launched a budget website and email to solicit feedback from the public. The page in question features a child style drawn painting of a family and "my house". PricedOut is calling on all it's members to fill in the feedback form on this page explaining how they can't afford "my house", and what they think of the government's shared equity and affordable housing schemes.
Take the Priced Out Home Owner test
22nd March 2006
Home owners, open your eyes to how bad things have got using our new Would You Be Priced Out calculator. Using this tool you can see if you would be priced out of the first home you bought if you were unlucky enough to be buying today.
For the rest of us, send those irritating friends and colleague's here, you know the one's who keep telling you it can't be that bad, to see just how hard it is to get onto the ladder these days.
PricedOut.org.uk launches campaign highlighting unaffordable house prices
15th March 2006
In his 1997 budget speech Gordon Brown said the following: "I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the future." He said he was determined that the UK should not return to the "instability, speculation and negative equity" of the 1980s and 1990s.*
Despite the Chancellor of the Exchequer's best intentions this is exactly what has happened, but this time it's worse. Today rampant house price inflation and speculation has left UK property at the most unaffordable levels ever recorded. Worse still than the early 1980's and 1990's.
We are issuing a rallying call to all those who are affected by unaffordably high prices to make your voices heard. If you, or someone you care about, is affected by this issue come to our website, sign up and pass the message on.
PricedOut will shortly be announcing a series of initiatives designed to raise public awareness of this campaign.
* Source BBC Budget 97