{"id":14386,"date":"2016-05-25T23:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sadiq-khan-condemns-foreign-investors-use-of-london-homes-as-gold-bricks\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:22:42","slug":"sadiq-khan-condemns-foreign-investors-use-of-london-homes-as-gold-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sadiq-khan-condemns-foreign-investors-use-of-london-homes-as-gold-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan condemns foreign investors' use of London homes as 'gold bricks'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMayor condemns capital\u2019s housing policy for being \u2018obsessed by numbers rather than building the right sorts of homes\u2019The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has attacked foreign investors for using homes in the capital as \u201cgold bricks for investment\u201d following a Guardian investigation that revealed the UK\u2019s tallest residential skyscraper is now more than 60% foreign-owned and is under-occupied.Facing questions from the London Assembly for the first time since he was elected mayor, Khan warned that building thousands of new homes a year in London to solve the housing crisis would mean nothing if \u201cthey are all bought by investors in the Middle East and Asia for use as second homes or they sit empty\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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