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Or the Manor Estate. Don't go in there. Seriously.
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BTL largely exists because the government scaled down social housing.
Personally I think the country was doing a crap job of providing social housing, but I still think the state could have done it properly. As it is, there's nothing immoral about people (who have saved up or borrowed cash) buying and providing decent quality accommodation
For those in reasonable-paid work: it's a (sort-of) capitalist country, BTL speculators are a symptom of stupid house prices, not the other way round.
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This is not a black and white situation
If BTL landlords did not buy houses, where would people live who cannot get a mortgage ?
If people could then magically buy houses, they could play D&B all night just the same
This Brown=Bogeyman comment I see everywhere is much too simplistic. The conservatives also used to tax pensions, and still tax the same way as Brown did AFAIK. Looking quickly around for an analysis, this one shows a bit more than the Daily Mail perspective: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/thereporters/evandavis/2007/04/that_pensions_raid.html
We have a very high percentage of home ownership here. This is not typical in all countries, so there's no "correct" amount of BTl
Anyway, BTL landlords don't dictate house prices, they react to them, I think you're looking in the wrong place for a villain. Also, how is BTL any more immoral than any other business? I fail to see it
Looking up the Milliband promises, I found a nice quote from "socialist economist" Assar Lindbeck: "the only thing worse for cities than rent control is bombing them." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assar_Lindbeck
Why do we need caps on rent? I thought the free market sorted out prices
Longer tenancies would be OK if tenant controls are also available to protect landlords
I have a couple of rented properties, and I can tell you buy to let is not all milk & honey. Ed Milliband will probably try to appeal to the Loony Left, the Socialist non-worker party, and all the other non-productive idiots by appealing to their envy. But this will not sort out the housing issue. Landlords provide a resource that all political parties shy away from. They should not be demonised in this childish way.
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There's nothing wrong with NIMBYism, I'm all for it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself