No such problem of property values dropping in the UK, with a surprising hot spot!! UK's number one property hotspot is... Luton! Town's proximity to London and good transport links see prices surge by almost 20% in a year House prices have risen £42,000 in a year in the Bedfordshire town Property prices surged 19.4 per cent, more than twice as fast as UK average Twelve years ago Luton was voted the worst place to live in book Crap Towns Halifax said the ten areas with the biggest house price rises were all in London and the South East By Sarah Meddings City Correspondent For The Daily Mail PUBLISHED: 01:24, 30 December 2016 | UPDATED: 09:04, 30 December 2016 e-mail 396shares 160 View comments Luton had the dubious honour of being voted the worst place to live in Britain in a 2004 book. But in a major turnaround, the Bedfordshire town has become an unlikely property hotspot – with house prices rising £42,000 in a year. Property values there surged by 19.4 per cent in the last year, more than twice as fast as the UK average and higher than anywhere else in the country. please log in to view this image +4 Property values in Luton surged by 19.4 per cent in the last year, more than twice as fast as the UK average and higher than anywhere else in the country please log in to view this image Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, said the ten areas with the biggest house price rises were all in London and the South East Average prices climbed from £214,934 to £256,636, according to lender Halifax. It’s a far cry from 12 years ago, when the town made the topspot in a list of worst UK places to live published in the frankly-titled tome Crap Towns. Since then the area has evidently grown popular with commuters thanks to its proximity to the capital and good transport links including Luton airport. please log in to view this image +4 Luton's standing is a far cry from 12 years ago, when the town made the topspot in a list of worst UK places to live published in the frankly-titled tome Crap Towns Central London is just half an hour away by train, and Cambridge – a major employer thanks to its university and growing technology sector – is an hour’s drive by car. And while Luton has seen a dramatic increase in house prices, it is still far cheaper than areas closer to London. Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, said the ten areas with the biggest house price rises were all in London and the South East. Barking and Dagenham, Basildon and Tower Hamlets were all on the list, with rises well above the national average. please log in to view this image +4 The area has evidently grown popular with commuters thanks to its proximity to the capital and good transport links including Luton airport RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next please log in to view this image How Mrs Thatcher learnt her lesson over free school milk:... please log in to view this image Dear Margaret... remarkable untold story of PM's friendship... please log in to view this image Domino's to launch drone delivery pizza in Australia next... please log in to view this image NHS maternity wards and operating theatres are riddled with... SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share 396 shares Martin Ellis, housing economist at Halifax, said: ‘Most of the areas that have seen the biggest house price rises during 2016 are either within close commuting distance of the capital or in outer London. ‘Demand in these areas has risen as substantial property price rises in central London over the last few years have caused increasing numbers of people to seek property in more affordable areas.’ Overall, Halifax said average UK house prices rose by 7.5 per cent in the last year. please log in to view this image +4 Halifax said the ten areas with the biggest house price rises were all in London and the South East It was a different picture for the North and Scotland, where in some areas prices fell dramatically. Aberdeen topped the list of the biggest casualties, where £15,017 has been wiped off the value of the average house. The city is heavily dependent on the oil and gas sector which has been hit by a collapse in the oil price. That has led to thousands of job losses, weighing heavily on Aberdeen’s economy. The average house price fell 6.9 per cent to £203,425. Bangor in Northern Ireland, Inverness and Blackpool also saw falls. Another report from Nationwide relating to the last three months echoed the North-South divide. East Anglia topped the table with house prices up 10.1 per cent to £218,544. In contrast, house prices in the North rose just 0.1 per cent to £124,284 over the same period. Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief economist, said: ‘Affordability has improved in Scotland, the North, East Midlands and Northern Ireland over the past ten years. ‘By contrast – in London and the South East – more people have found themselves priced out of the market.’ While prices have risen sharply over the last 12 months, Halifax said next year could see them pick up at a much slower pace. It said annual house price growth would be between 1 and 4 per cent by the end of next year – far below this year’s spike. The lender said it was likely the economy would soften over 2017, and lower levels of house sales would occur as people responded by not buying or moving home. Activity in the buy-to-let sector is also likely to cool further in 2017 as tax changes hit landlords’ profits. ADVERTISING Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...links-prices-surge-20-year.html#ixzz4UJfzTnhR Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Is that per year - or would that just be enough to buy a house? Up here that would probably buy you two...
The reason why so many migrants go to Luton is that the language there is very easy to learn. Consisting of a more limited vocabulary and frequent repetition of such phrases as 'innit', or 'watchoo lookin at ?', or 'is you startin on me', or '**** off mate'. The range of vocab outside of this is strictly limited. This makes intregration very simple and offers migrants a short cut into the English language.
Well that should have a very positive effect on English Education's performance in the PISA tables. The two countries that regularly top the tables, Finland and South Korea, do so because their written languages are phonetic, enabling children to learn them more quickly - and then concentrate on learning the 'academic stuff' at an earlier age...
Migration Watch UK? An organisation with an agenda, a right wing "think tank", hardly a bastion of independent thought and reporting. Thus you leave yourself open to accusations of propaganda. Not entirely surprising.
https://skwawkbox.org/2016/12/30/pr...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer First time I've heard of this - it alleges that Farage applied for German citizenship the day after the EU referendum, and is now 'in trouble' with the German authorities for providing false information to back up his application. Which explains why he is cosying up with Trump - hoping to stay as far out of reach as possible...
The title of the organisation should give everybody a clue to their aims. This does not necessarily detract from the accuracy of the information. It is very hard to find any report that is truly independent, most are biased to some degree.
I saw pictures in the press here showing Farage going into the office to make his application. There was plenty of comment from the public about him being two faced. As it could have been propaganda I didn't report it here. Now that it is shown to be more than that he has to be fair game. Of course there will be his little sycophants who cannot see what a toad he actually is. All publicity is good publicity is it now Farage? Man of the year? It seems to be going downhill fast.
Both the Independent and the Guardian rightly rubbished this story which died back in August. Just shows you can fool some of the people all the time. I'm not surprised the French also fell for it.
How very strange that the story died in August, while the police confirm that it is ongoing in October. The papers said that Ukip rubbished the story, not that they did.
They dropped the story as soon as they realised there was no basis. He was entitled to be in the German Embassy because his wife is German. I'm not sure why you think he should be disqualified from applying anyway. His job is done. He is the most successful UK politician since Thatcher. With his relationship with Trump he could become the UK's most precious asset.
You have been taking too much Lemsip. He wants to take away peoples rights while protecting his own. Typical of the man. He is a hypocrite.
He is definitely guilty of patriotically putting his country first which is why he is very popular in the UK. He left a lucrative career to donate much of his life to change the UK for the better. He will be long remembered for his success well after the other recent pygmy politicians. He certainly wants to limit the rights of Eastern Europeans to flood into the UK. Nigel Farage was named 'Briton of the Year' 2014 by The Times. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Time magazine 'person of the year' Why there's no question Nigel Farage is our Man of the Year, says LEO MCKINSTRY WINSTON Churchill, our greatest national leader and the epitome of courage, once made the exhortation: “Never, ever give in. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” By LEO MCKINSTRY PUBLISHED: 07:12, Thu, Dec 29, 2016 | UPDATED: 08:19, Thu, Dec 29, 2016 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 6K please log in to view this image 691 please log in to view this image GETTY Ex-Ukip leader Nigel Farage has had one of his most successful years in 2016 Throughout his career that advice has been followed by Nigel Farage, the heroic architect of Brexit. His campaign to free Britain from the clutches of the EU’s misrule was often a lonely one. The long fight for the restoration of British sovereignty brought him abuse, vilification and even physical attack. In taking on the vast, malignant alliance of the Brussels bureaucracy, the British political establishment and the proEU media, he was constantly portrayed as a marginalised, extreme figure. RELATED ARTICLES please log in to view this image Nigel Farage predicts 'RADICAL CHANGE' in 2020 General Election please log in to view this image Nigel Farage invited to Donald Trump’s INAUGURATION as VIP Typical of this fashionable sneering was David Cameron’s 2006 description of Ukip as “a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”. But Farage kept going, driven by an instinctive sense of patriotism that the self-regarding elitists could never understand. Against all the knowing conventional wisdom, he ultimately prevailed last summer with the triumphant referendum vote for Brexit. The victory was a monument to his tenacity. Through his leadership he not only liberated our nation from EU subjugation but he also smashed the suffocating progressive orthodoxy that has wreaked such damage.
