Quote Originally Posted by redken1 View Post
Perhaps, if we viewed property, primarily as a home and not as a financial investment, I might be proved wrong.
Hugely valid point about affordable housing.

The little village in the Rhondda my family is from used to be so cheap to buy an old miners terrace you could have found the required mortgage deposit in old pennies on the floor. Now that's no longer the case and hardly anyone living there owns their house because they have been snapped up (and prices driven up) by buy to let investors. The area is still a deprived, dump with little employment but that in itself has become a cash cow for the buy to let crowd as their tenants have their rent paid by the council.