From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 08/09/2025 08:03, Roland Perry wrote: 
 > In message <109kcl0$3pssh$2@dont-email.me>, at 16:42:09 on Sun, 7 Sep 
 > 2025, Jethro_uk  remarked: 
 >> On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:15:52 +0100, Fredxx wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> The rental market will become more strained and rents will undoubtedly 
 >>> increase. Some will exit the market and the supply further shrink. 
 >> 
 >> Unless a landlord blows up their property out of spite, one property 
 >> taken off the rental market equals another on the market for a homeowner. 
 > 
 > But there isn't a shortage of properties for owner occupiers to buy. 
 > Quite the reverse. They've stopped much of the building on the new 
 > estates surrounding Ely [sorry] because they can't sell the ones they 
 > already have. 
 > 
 > The council is making vague but probably unrealistic noises about 
 > terminating their planning permission, and re-issuing it to a developer 
 > who would build lower-priced homes. 
 > 
 > More anecdata: there's a house in my GF's street which has been on the 
 > market since at least the New Year, and my neighbour's house has been 
 > since Easter. A empty bungalow round the corner has been on the market 
 > for about a year, and another near-neighbour's house has only been 
 > occupied the last few weeks, when the old lady vacated it to a care home 
 > before the pandemic. Could have been probate issues though. My GF's late 
 > mother's flat sold as recently as last week, but was marketed in 
 > December, and there are several other flats in the block which have been 
 > unsold that whole time. 
  
 It's only a matter of price. 
  
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