{"id":42399,"date":"2017-01-31T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britain-has-enough-land-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-its-just-being-hoarded\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:01:30","slug":"britain-has-enough-land-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-its-just-being-hoarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britain-has-enough-land-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-its-just-being-hoarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain has enough land to solve the housing crisis \u2013 it's just being hoarded"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDevelopers are sitting on land without building anything, then selling it on for profit \u2013 a vicious cycle that can make it impossible to create affordable homes. What can be done to stop this speculative feeding frenzy?\u201cBuy land,\u201d said Mark Twain. \u201cThey\u2019re not making it any more.\u201d\u201cThen once you\u2019ve bought it, sit on it for a while, apply for planning permission, and sell it on for 10 times the price!\u201d retort the land traders. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Britain has enough land to solve the housing crisis \u2013 it’s just being hoarded<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Developers are sitting on land without building anything, then selling it on for profit \u2013...<\/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-42399","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-b1R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":268,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wealthy-property-owners-can-solve-uk-housing-crisis-by-releasing-land\/","url_meta":{"origin":42399,"position":0},"title":"Wealthy property owners 'can solve UK housing crisis' by releasing land","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r England's 5,000 biggest landowners are being asked to free up land for affordable housing\r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Wealthy property owners 'can solve UK housing crisis' by releasing land","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13712,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-has-enough-money-and-land-but-no-guts-or-will-to-solve-its-housing-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":42399,"position":1},"title":"Hong Kong has enough money and land, but no guts or will to solve its housing crisis","date":"May 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I feel sorry for Hong Kong people when it comes to housing. 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