Grand Designs self-build guru Kevin McCloud says people should rent and not buy their homes.
He says prices have peaks and then drop, but essentially property in the UK will always be of a premium because there's not enough of it. We are going to have to reconsider how we choose to live in terms of renting. There seems to be an allergy to that here and yet renting is a perfectly good idea. I rented for years and I loved it no responsibilities, no clearing of gutters. It left me free to actually enjoy my life says the presenter.
McCloud says he is pessimistic about the likely quality of the targetted 250,000 new homes which the government says will eventually be built in the UK each year, in a bid to solve the long-running housing shortage.
It's not to do with the amount, it's to do with the quality. We have to build houses that people want to live in within communities that work for them he insists.
McCloud last year used a crowd-funding platform to raise over £1.9m to assist his development business, Happiness Architecture Beauty, which builds sustainable properties and last year completed a 42 home project in Swindon, including 50 percent social housing - some of which will be to rent.
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While I agree to an extent with his sentiments, property ownership should be seen as an investment and not necessity, I have to point out that clearing of gutters is actually a tenants responsibility...
Terrible advise, and from someone that builds property for a living. I assume he doesn't sell any of them then.
The last we thing we need is hippy toffs telling us what to do. Kev should climb back in his rusty jacuzzi & STFU.