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Pay, care and housing – problems for all generations; here’s Haldane on building houses.
Is Andy Haldane speaking here for Government? I hope he is. He’;s rumoured to be influential in No 11 Downing Street and the Chancellor has a big job sorting out a strategy to tackle housing. Care and our wage in … Continue reading
Aussie pensions find problems providing us with housing
After fire safety regulations in Britain were tightened following the 2017 blaze in Grenfell Tower, west London, Get Living had to set aside £337.5mn to pay for fire safety remediation works at the East Village. “The developers[the ODA] got the … Continue reading
Where this Govt. should get its act together is HOUSING – as it has with private pensions!
Harry Scoffin is a friend of mine and a tireless advocate for reform of housing laws which imprison leaseholders. He is able to use the techniques used on tic-toc on linked in. He inspires us to listen to him with … Continue reading
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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Tagged Housing, Infrastructure, L&G, LTAF, LTAFs, NEST, workplace
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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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Tagged Council Tax, Housing, Pensions, stamp duty, Tax, transaction tax
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