York most expensive northern city to buy home (From York Press)
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York most expensive northern city to buy home
8:45am Monday 15th October 2012 in News
YORK is the most expensive city in northern England to buy a home, according to a new report.
The research, by Halifax bank, found the average homes in the city cost £1,830 per square metre.
The report also found Oxford and Cambridge were among the most expensive areas, and house prices in central London cost on average £7,586 per square metre.
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PA2Y5C
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9:35am Mon 15 Oct 12
again
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10:52am Mon 15 Oct 12
roskoboskovic wrote:They aren't falsely inflated are they? If they were then they wouldn't sell. But they do sell and rather quickly in some places.
why is that no surprise.unless the university suddenly disappears the prices to rent or buy will remain falsely inflated.
Sawday2
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11:34am Mon 15 Oct 12
roskoboskovic wrote:You mean like Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, Bradford, Canterbury, Norwich, Bath, Liverpool, Durham, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Warwick...
why is that no surprise.unless the university suddenly disappears the prices to rent or buy will remain falsely inflated.
yorkborn66
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3:26pm Mon 15 Oct 12
Sawday2
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3:36pm Mon 15 Oct 12
yorkborn66 wrote:Tell me about it - I've got two twenty-somethings at home. However, I do have to take issue with a couple of points (a) it's not just York that has this problem and (b) 'affordable' is a misused term. If I won the lottery this week many more houses become 'affordable' to me. Perhaps 'basic', 'small' or 'cheap' might be better terminology to use.
It’s a shame that siblings cannot afford to live or buy a house in York anymore. Generations of families that have lived in York are been forced out. Totally wrong in my mind. I would like see more affordable housing, the criteria for applicants is at least one person applying born in York.
yorkborn66
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4:27pm Mon 15 Oct 12
Sawday2 wrote:I suppose affordable housing is the fashionable name for council housing. But housing association and part rent part buy as well.
yorkborn66 wrote:Tell me about it - I've got two twenty-somethings at home. However, I do have to take issue with a couple of points (a) it's not just York that has this problem and (b) 'affordable' is a misused term. If I won the lottery this week many more houses become 'affordable' to me. Perhaps 'basic', 'small' or 'cheap' might be better terminology to use.
It’s a shame that siblings cannot afford to live or buy a house in York anymore. Generations of families that have lived in York are been forced out. Totally wrong in my mind. I would like see more affordable housing, the criteria for applicants is at least one person applying born in York.
Wages / salaries locally are not in line with inflation, the chance of getting on the mortgage ladder now is minimal, and all I see is housing turned into flats.
Nationally some boffin’s recon the average age now for a couple able to get a mortgage is 35! Whilst rent from GREEDY landlords exceeds what the value of a property would be on a mortgage. Personally 90 percent of work I turn down is from greedy landlords that expect their tenants to live in sub standard conditions, but expect cash in hand sub standard work at the bare minimum.
Work been carried out by foreign workers that is cheap and sub standard whilst claiming benefits as well is more the norm. About time the country woke up, the Conservative Party, are clowns, Nick Clegg needs to go to lost property to collect his spine that has been there for ages.
york_chap
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6:11pm Mon 15 Oct 12
Fair enough that everyone's always had to save to get a property, but it seems unfair that even a smallish flat now costs at least 6 times a young person's typical gross salary. I suppose we should be thankful we're not in Oxford or Cambridge or especially London, where even small flats are hundreds per week to rent, not even per month.
bob the builder
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9:27pm Mon 15 Oct 12
Sawday2
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10:28pm Mon 15 Oct 12
jgycfc
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12:49am Tue 16 Oct 12
This is absolutely no shock of a story. Again, it's barely even a story. It's stating the bleeding obvious, void of any further digging, and presenting some stats like the only way York Press know how. grumble grumble investigative journalism grumble grumble.
Shock horror the capital costs more too. Wow. groundbreaking stuff here. Dear un-named journo for this, how's that work experience at the local rag going? Please try harder next time. I'll give you an optimistic D- for your efforts, in case an F causes too much upset and disheartens you, as opposed to make you try harder next time.
Also in other ground-breaking revelations thing are worth what people are prepared to pay for.
Magicman!
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1:44am Tue 16 Oct 12
roskoboskovic says...
9:07am Mon 15 Oct 12