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    Sell up and downsize, pensioners told

    2015-09-18 It's time to sell up your home OAPs told: Anger as financial watchdog tells elderly to downsize to tackle housing shortage

    Well not exactly "told", yet. But this is how it starts, with honeyed words about encouragement and incentives.

    Been saying for ages that the way things are going, in a few years property rights will go out of the window and the Government will be organising in a massive way exactly where people live.

    If you are single, or a couple cogging on, and living in a nice house you own outright, don't be surprised if you are forced into a pokey high-rise flat to make way for a young family (probably of immigrants)

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    ^ This.

    Mind you it always makes me laugh watching "Escape to the Country" where two pensioners are downsizing to a 6 bedroom house set in 57 acres to free up some much needed capital.

    And no one can afford the house they are "downsizing" from, unless they too made their money sitting in a house near London for 40 years.

    But the LibLabCon govt will meddle one way or another. Korbyn will simple seize all personal property. The state should own everything Komrade.
    Last edited by DimPrawn; 18 September 2015, 08:53.

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      #3
      I guess we'll all get shamed into it via Camoron's sinister Nudge Squad.

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        #4
        Are they expected to downsize into smaller affordable housing that the FTB'ers and BTL people are fighting over?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Pherlopolus View Post
          Are they expected to downsize into smaller affordable housing that the FTB'ers and BTL people are fighting over?
          Yes, to free up the £2.3m house to a struggling larger family to buy.

          Or more likely, a large immigrant family that's just arrived, that claims the £7k per month rent from the state and tax-payer.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View Post
            I guess we'll all get shamed into it via Camoron's sinister Nudge Squad.
            Behaviour science ... or in plain English and New World Order newspeak, you will become a non-thinking, non un-approved State drone, whether you like it or not.

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              #7
              Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
              Been saying for ages that the way things are going, in a few years property rights will go out of the window and the Government will be organising in a massive way exactly where people live.
              Oh don't worry - property rights will be untouched. It's just there will be no free care available to majority of ageing population. They'll get their pityfully small state pension, but nobody said they'll get free care despite all that free NHS thingy, MWHHAHAHAHA!

              Can't wait for new "ring fenced" Social Care Tax too

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                #8
                Originally posted by Pherlopolus View Post
                Are they expected to downsize into smaller affordable housing that the FTB'ers and BTL people are fighting over?
                No.

                They are expected to die from stress of having to sell their lovely home that they worked so hard, so that Gideon gets his inheritance tax cut (since the rules are so complex and very unlikely pensioners will do what's needed to fully comply with new higher death tax "allowances")



                So basically, if you think of becoming a pensioner then it's good time to reconsider.

                HTH

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                  #9
                  Anger as financial watchdog tells elderly to downsize to tackle housing shortage...

                  Shortage of housing or surplus of people?



                  And that's up to 2011, it's been much greater since "tough on immigration Dave took over"

                  Are they living in houses (whether rented from BTL landord or purchased) or under rocks? And these houses are therefore not available to the indigenous persons.

                  There's your answer selfie-stick iCrap generation rent....

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                    #10
                    It's who buys their property when the "sell up" though, seen it plenty of times around where I live e.g. a nice bungalow set in large gardens on a main road gets sold. Next thing it's being demolished and 4 detatched houses are being built on the plot. There's about 6' of space between them and tiny gardens front and rear with hardly and parking space.

                    Easy money for the developers as say the bungalow sold for £250k, each detached shoe box might go for the same amount so roughly £0.5m profit.
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