Comments on: Property is properly pigging me off

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Youch! That definitely bites the big one. They�re creating an artificially scarce market that drives up prices. 800 pound for a single bedroom apartment? Holy smokes! That�s almost $1500.

Sounds like you Jersey residents need to get some new blood into the political works.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Absolutely. The current administration is trying to sort out these problems but it is too good for too many people. For example a farmer dies and leaves his house and a field to his kids. The field which would be worth next to nothing elsewhere is suddenly a multi million pound windfall for the kids. Plus there are any number of building companies and letting agencies who are quite happy to lift a hell of a lot of money off people who want to live here.

Even if they did remove the qualification barrier the prices are still going to remain abnormally high unless the government steps in and forces landlord / owners to lower them which is never going to happen�

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Prices would be high since land is at a premium but they would be hella lower than they are now in the artificial market.

I hope they get that straightened out for you.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

That sounds crazy! I�m a bit confused though – how can property companies buy properties if they don�t live there?

Some 230+ years ago some King George guy tried some stupid stuff over here and we dumped a bunch of tea in the boston harbor. It sounds like Jersey�s Admin needs to have their tea dumped�

By: Lemurgirl

Lemurgirl — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

oh robbie roo. Don�t let it get you down, the Jersey admin people just smell, really bad, of po� onna stick

You could always come live with me up here in wonderful Durham. Or if not live, at least come visit!!!

AxXx

By: Lemurgirl

Lemurgirl — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

hmmm, po onna stick? interesting tellytubby images there. Of course i meant to say poo.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

That really sucks. But it�s hard to see how they break the impass, unless they can redesignate some of the land for non-quallys.

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I heard about that while I was in Jersey-while I understand that it�s to keep the �holiday-makers� cough*taxshelter*cough out, it really penalizes the people that live and work there and want a bit of their own land to live on, get drunk on, and have a good shag on.

If you start a Donate for Rob�s House Fund, I will definitely be contributing.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Clancy – yeah I think a Jersey Tea Party would certainly re-dress the balance. Unfortunately Jersey�s situation is rather more fragile than that. We are almost wholly reliant on off-shore finance to keep thje place going and I don�t think they�d stick around through a civil war.

Oh and property in jersey can be bought by anyone who can afford it – the buy to let market over here is huge with 3 or 4 main companies dominating the market.

Simon – they are considering doing away with the quallys system altogether for rented accomadation and reducing the time before non-quallied people can buy to 10 years … 10 years – how magnanimous of them!

Helen – You�re spot on. Interestingly enough there was a BBC Radio 5 documentary about Jersey as a Tax Haven on a few weeks ago. They worked out that for the tax breaks to be beneficial you need to have liquid assests of somewhere in the region of ???30,000,000.00!!!

Oh and Ali – po on a stick? You mean something like this?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

rob come back to england when your 2/3 years commercial experiance is up (which must be soon) and get a job here, earn shitloads of cash, start your own company and go back and buy jersey.

Oh and po on a stick is just wrong.