Who are buying all the new houses?

Now who's the one raving on?

When you have to resort to insults you've lost the argument.

From the person who went on a rambling rant and tells young people to stop complaining and just get over it and just get on with it when they own 2 properties?

Yes, you've really devastated me. As I said when you have resort to insults you've lost the argument.

No, I just prefer to have a discussion as an adult and not thrown out tropes, generlistaions and nonsense statements like "It's like trying to talk to boys barrett, a vegan or some other idealogue".

For someone who claims to be so helpful you don't have much empathy to the issues other's face, insulting their intelligence because they're still living at home in their 30's when the figures show that this has become the norm in 2026 with the average first time buyer being around 35.

What do you believe are the issues in the market that has caused this? Or is it just that younger people aren't "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"?

You just kept repeating the generlisations and saying people basically just need to work harder, bragging about how many properties you own and being a saint of a landlord. Hardly the most cogent of arguments.

Of course, it has nothing at all to do with average house costing 8X the industrial age these days when it was 4X back in the 80's.

Just fyi, I bought a house in 2024 with my partner, yet I can still understand the serious issues and the tropes being trotted out are not the reasons.

Cheers for making my point for me, you’ve absolutely conformed to the caricatures above

I purchased a house last year actually, with great difficulty despite herself and I being high earners. Huge amount of additional red tape, hoops to jump through and BS in general compared with years ago. Our parents were in disbelief at it all.

And we are the lucky ones with the best chances - many of our peers will not be able to secure their own houses for years if at all. Low income workers have no chance.

So despite also being a homeowner I’d like to see things improve, the market is beyond a disgrace.

Try having a shred of empathy for your fellow countrymen.
Although as a landlord I suppose people being desperate with the state of the market benefits you ultimately.

Days of large families is over. Declining birth rates all across the developed world housing crisis or not.

Immigration is the only solution. Also we need them to fill the vacancies.

Yep we managed to buy one and I can guarantee it took a lot more sweat, grit and pain than yours did. Even had a couple of avocados along the way would you believe.

Sure it doesn’t matter anyway, you don’t care about any of your fellow citizen’s difficulties, you’re alright Jack 👍

Have to remember that there were a lot more single income families in the 80s. Not always by choice.

In practical terms, X4 the average industrial wage in the 80s is the same as X8 the average industrial wage of dual income households now (Which is the standard really for new buyers)

Not that I think that's a good thing mind you, but I'm not sure it's really a valid comparison as it's a very different situation.

Probably better to compare it to 2012/13 numbers where you still had mostly two income households buying but houses were almost half the price they are now.

Yes it was, as was 20 years ago (timeframe you're using) why is that ok to use but not the 80's when the majority of the so called "boomers" bought their initial properties?

No money in the country yet many couples on a single average income could buy a house.

I know that there was and on a single income a couple could buy a house. That would practically be impossible in this day. So people who bought back then using the same tired tropes to complain about the younger generations who are struggling to purchase clearly aren't fully aware of the reality in 2026.

David McWilliams said a few months ago that the government is buying 80-85% of all new housing (excluding one offs in the countryside , which iirc is around 20% of homes built)

In my opinion that 80-85% figure is totally unsustainable n doesn't sound like a thriving economy to me. Sounds like an economy totally addicted to handy corporation tax.

In my area its close to 100% of new developments. He's right. Also, a very high % of second hand houses - especially executors sales - are being bought by local authorities.