House price Vs Immigrants - local view

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http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ ... opic=52843


A discussion about the influence of immigrants (positive and negative) on UK housing market - runs into many pages if any one interested to kill their time!!

[jimquk]

Any discussion that starts off sourced from the Daily Mail has got to be suspect!

What these discussions usually miss is that nearly as many people emigrate as immigrate. According to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6161705.stm

there are five and a half million Brits living abroad.

The main cause of housing shortages is people living in smaller households, and buying bigger properties than they need hoping to make money on them. The shortage of social housing results from sold-off properties not being replaced.