Still having massive migration numbers which may stave off a full crash as ultimately there is an element of supply and demand - very very hard to get rentals.
Still having massive migration numbers which may stave off a full crash as ultimately there is an element of supply and demand - very very hard to get rentals.
The attitude to housing here is just gross.
No major party is interested in changing it. I find it very hard to imagine this government (or any other in living memory) letting the housing market drop significantly.
A full on crash would be ugly. No matter what part of society you live in (well maybe except the 0.1%).
Labour did a pump and dump on immigration to make the books look a (tiny) bit better). National well, yes..
Some other people are willing to justify it (eg coming from the bay area). But I think the reality once they get here is different - about 3-4 years ago I was running a software co that was recruiting a bit of overseas people for the skills we needed, we started to get a few that would leave the country after they realised 'maybe the grass isn't greener'