Petals Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Watching Sky UK today and they were saying that there is a severe shortage of workers in the building industry and house builds are not keeping up with demand. Food for thought for anyone going home or tooing and froing about migration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yes added hope and incentive for those on the reverse journey. Or those in two minds even with regards to leaving. Although not forgetting the surplus of building workers from within Europe, would take up a lot of the slack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flybyknight Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 i know a couple of chippies in the uk, one of them is out of work, the other travels from portsmouth to london to live in shared digs earning the same money he was making in portsmouth back in the day. so as much as i'd love to be wrong, this seems to be bullshit. i guess sky are trying to energise the industry, it hasn't happened yet though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausborn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My friends in Suffolk saying it's picked up a bit. They felt it very bad up until last year when it turned around a bit for them. The money still is not good enough for them though. London and outskirts where I still expect the money to be made is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My friends in Suffolk saying it's picked up a bit. They felt it very bad up until last year when it turned around a bit for them. The money still is not good enough for them though. London and outskirts where I still expect the money to be made is. Well yes. At the moment the economic salvation of the nation is being lived through a housing boom. How long do you think that will last? An interest rate rise will cut that stone dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't think there's much chance of an interest rate rise for a year or two yet. They daren't fiddle with interest rates while the economy is still in the doldrums. I heard on the news this morning that the US GDP fell by 2.9% last quarter, taking economists by surprise. Response from the government was "the recovery is still on track" do politicians think people are stupid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blewyn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 How can there be a housing market boom and a building recession at the same time ? Doesn't make sense.......building should boom to balance the housing supply (in theory)..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't think there's much chance of an interest rate rise for a year or two yet. They daren't fiddle with interest rates while the economy is still in the doldrums. I heard on the news this morning that the US GDP fell by 2.9% last quarter, taking economists by surprise. Response from the government was "the recovery is still on track" do politicians think people are stupid? Fact being no body knows. The RBA and governments have made something of a pigs ear of housing in Australia. So many diverging views that folk are kept constantly confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 How can there be a housing market boom and a building recession at the same time ? Doesn't make sense.......building should boom to balance the housing supply (in theory)..... Or to supply the overseas market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blewyn Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 You mean foreign landlords..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petals Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 What they were saying was nothing to do with values of the houses, it was all about building new low cost houses as there is such a chronic shortage of affordable housing. So entrepreneurs are not in their sights, in fact if they build lots and lots of new affordable housing it may cool the market which is a good thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritChickx Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 i know a couple of chippies in the uk, one of them is out of work, the other travels from portsmouth to london to live in shared digs earning the same money he was making in portsmouth back in the day. so as much as i'd love to be wrong, this seems to be bullshit. i guess sky are trying to energise the industry, it hasn't happened yet though! Definite crap, at least where I live (in the Portsmouth area). My dad works in the building/sparky trade and him and his boss struggle too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 It's great talking about building new low cost housing but isn't the UK running out of places to build on? When we were back there last year there was a petition floating around Glossop as some developer wanted to start building in the peak district National Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sustain Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 No doubt there is a shortage, I don't know any readies that were trained to build homes with foodstuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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