Rental Market - Blain's Morning Porridge

Bear Markets, Opportunity, Hopes, Expectations and UK Shared Ownership Housing

Markets are in wait and see mode – inflation, rates, earnings and all the rest weigh upon them. Back in the real world, the economic reality for young workers trying to find housing security in London feels more and more broken.

An Open letter to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Housing Minister Rachel Maclean

Outrageous rental increases and the naked greed of professional landlords will result in a dearth of young workers priced out of London. It will destroy the City’s economy and negatively impact the UK even more conclusively than the Luftwaffe, political mistakes, global banking crisis, pandemic or recession.

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