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Old 09-09-2024, 17:32   #241
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Re: Here comes the tax rises

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Not as easy as you think - where we live, 3 bed bungalows cost as much as 4 bed detached houses (because developers can build a 4/5 bed house on the bungalow’s footprint).
Not even because of that, my mother-in-law is downsizing (I said that in a Bernard Manning impression)

Just sold her three bedroom bungalow for £470,000. And not to a young family (because a young family couldn’t afford that) but to another couple of similar age who are also downsizing.

And if you’re downsizing to £470K, I doubt any young families are buying the property they’re leaving either.
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