{"id":32549,"date":"2016-11-01T20:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-housing-sadiq-khan-research-brief-recognises-need-for-overseas-investors\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:23:30","slug":"london-housing-sadiq-khan-research-brief-recognises-need-for-overseas-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-housing-sadiq-khan-research-brief-recognises-need-for-overseas-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"London housing: Sadiq Khan research brief recognises need for overseas investors"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe mayor\u2019s search for better evidence on an emotive issue shows that he knows that foreign buyers have been made an easy scapegoatMany Londoners take it as read that the high cost of housing in the capital is the fault of wealthy foreigners. Assigning blame to speculators from distant lands who purchase job lots of posh flats in skyline-wrecking towers then coolly leave them empty as their value goes through the roof reveals a Ukip streak in a Remain-voting city where 37% of people were born abroad and 300 languages are spoken.Everybody wants a piece of this populist narrative, including voices on the left. Mayor Sadiq Khan himself has cheerfully cranked out those crowd-pleasing lines about luxury housing units being stacked up like gold bricks both before and since he got elected back in May. How pleasing, then, to report that his recently announced inquiry into the impact of foreign property investment in London recognises that reality may not bear out the rhetoric. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The mayor\u2019s search for better evidence on an emotive issue shows that he knows that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-8sZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89666,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sadiq-khan-faces-housing-rethink-over-retirement-properties\/","url_meta":{"origin":32549,"position":0},"title":"Sadiq Khan faces housing rethink over retirement properties","date":"May 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Sadiq Khan faces housing rethink over retirement properties","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73327,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-wants-to-build-650000-new-homes-by-2029-to-solve-citys-chronic-housing-shortage\/","url_meta":{"origin":32549,"position":1},"title":"London mayor Sadiq Khan wants to build 650,000 new homes by 2029 to solve city\u2019s chronic housing shortage","date":"November 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r London\u2019s mayor said that he would tackle a chronic housing shortage by allowing denser construction and developing small sites like gardens and shops, in a move criticised by one opponent as a \u201cgarden grab\u201d. 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