Tag Archives: Housing
It seems the emotional attachment to “bricks and mortar” is the same in Australia as in Britain
I don’t know Ben Walsh, but I should, he’s Australian and a member of the Pension PlayPen. But better than either, he writes a mean column on linked in For Australia read Britain Ben!
Homeowners will pay for decades of policy failure – like pensions the backstop is risible
As fixed-rate deals expire, the soaring costs expose the the risks of our market-driven approach to housing, lending and long-term security Will Hutton Columnist and Friend to Pensions Mutual This is a version of an article he published in the … Continue reading
Civic minded pensioners don’t come cheap; future generations need pensions (even more than houses)
Stephen Bush’s brilliant article was inspired by him sitting in on trials and discovering magistrates in their seventies, he looks at the board of the flats he’s a leaseholder of and he finds grandparent pensioners looking after children so that … Continue reading
Financing the next wave of New Towns; investment not Government borrowing
I have been sent a blog from Tom Aubrey and Con Keating about how we pay for the new towns we need to house millions of people who aren’t living in their own places or living in places they’d prefer … Continue reading
Work Pensions do deals NOW in UK private markets (not just offer LTAFs).
While the ABI hurried out a paper I wrote about over the weekend saying insurers had invested next to nothing (0.24% of £268bn) in retail workplace pensions (around £650m), institutional investment is a different matter for organisations seeing investment as … Continue reading
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The house – get rich slow with nothing to pay in tax?
The Government’s conversation with the newspapers the elderly and wealth read is interesting. The elderly and the wealthy should know that they are going to get it in taxation so that the Chancellor can manage her books and encourage growth … Continue reading
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House owners, enjoy your pension ; renters feed your landlord
Let’s not kid ourselves about the price of our house rising fast enough for us not to have to think about savings, it’s just not like that anymore Yes houses have gone up over the past five years in absolute … Continue reading
“Pension + house owning!” Nest Insight – meet Hymans Robertson.
Thanks Nest Insight for addressing one of the biggest questions for young people working out how to prioritise their spare cash. Hymans Robertson excellent report has sensible suggestions on how youngsters wanting a pension to help them buy a house, … Continue reading
What motivates the young?
“The most important fact in modern British domestic politics: in the 1990s, a first-time buyer couple on a low-to-middle income saving 5% of their wages would have enough for an average deposit after three years. Today it would take them … Continue reading
“High interest rates will help the young”- really?
A report out today from the Resolution Foundation finds a dramatic turnaround in working people’s prospects of getting rich Over the past four decades, the total value of wealth owned by UK households has been on a seemingly-relentless upward … Continue reading