Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson
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26th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
Economics for Dummies Chapter 3 When supply is severely constrained by over-regulation, don't let NIMBYs block planning applications that will increase supply and stabilise house price and rent inflation.
Read More →24th May 2026, 2 weeks ago
No, Mr Burnham. The reason for the housing crisis is structural because your party nationalised development rights in 1947 under the Town & Country Planning Act. Experts all agree that it is this piece of legislation that is causing the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Frank William Milligan URQUHART at 21/05/2026 - 14:20
Reply to the comment left by Frank URQUHART at 21/05/2026 - 14:20I believe in USA they also have a similar system to the South African sectional title where everyone belongs to a Homeowners Association (HOA) when living in a shared...
Read More →7th May 2026, 1 month ago
Landlord decision-making is not solely driven by money. Increasing regulation and a perception that landlords have become enemies of the state through no fault of their own, at least for the vast majority, is driving them from the PRS. They...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jan Hall at 28/04/2026 - 10:02
Reply to the comment left by Jan Hall at 28/04/2026 - 10:02Agreed. Landlords were in cahoots with Trump and the ayatollahs to block the Strait of Hormuz.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Alexander at 30/03/2026 - 08:39
Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118 at 30/03/2026 - 08:39No. You were right the first time. I don't see this in financial terms, but in political terms. The parties at Westminster are clearly on...
Read More →24th March 2026, 3 months ago
I am still trying to get my head around the fact that it was a Conservative Government that wanted to get rid of landlords. What happened to the property owning democracy that Thatcher was keen to create?
Read More →21st March 2026, 3 months ago
Since when is a £7,000 fine an acceptable punishment for what is a simple administrative error? I am sure there are plenty of criminal offences which carry a lesser fine. Speeding, dangerous driving, peddling drugs, tax evasion? Are landlords going...
Read More →Reply to comment left by marita gray at 11/03/2026 - 09:58
Reply to the comment left by Sally Robinson at 11/03/2026 - 09:58Agreed. The United Kingdom is the worst place on earth.
Read More →12th February 2026, 4 months ago
There is a long list of things against developers: 1. Nimbys 2. Affordable housing s.106 3. Community Infrastructure Levy 4. Nutrient neutrality 5. Biodiversity net gain 6. No skilled labour 7. Build cost inflation 8. CGT 9. UK Govt 10....
Read More →5th February 2026, 4 months ago
Solicitors know how to look after number one and don't give a monkeys about clients or their interests. This assessment is based on more than 35 years of dealing with them through wills, trusts, probate and landlord and tenant matters....
Read More →31st January 2026, 4 months ago
There is the politics, then there is the reality. Leaseholders have been sold a populist narrative that service charges will disappear overnight along with rogue freeholders and their managing agent accomplices. The reality is that buildings will still need to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jo Westlake at 15/01/2026 - 10:19
Reply to the comment left by Jo Westlake at 15/01/2026 - 10:19Welfarism defeats all risk taking, personal responsibility and self reliance. That is why we are in a doom loop of ever decreasing circles. The trouble is, the British public...
Read More →15th January 2026, 5 months ago
Red and blue socialist govts are ideologically driven with scant regard to practical considerations or common sense. Remember, this RRA was started by the Conservatives.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 13/01/2026 - 14:26
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 13/01/2026 - 14:26My most recent quote from a solicitor was £350 per hour plus VAT. If this helps?
Read More →12th January 2026, 5 months ago
The govt should first put its own house in order by making HMRC, HMCTS and HMLR more user friendly. These departments are staffed by clowns who have no idea what they are doing and have never heard of customer service....
Read More →7th January 2026, 5 months ago
Margaret Thatcher once famously said that we have not rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them return under Brussels. Well, 35 years later and having left the EU, we are doing a pretty good...
Read More →21st November 2025, 7 months ago
Doing away with freeholders and managing agents is not going to change the fact that buildings need to be maintained and the costs of doing so need to be paid. There will still need to be a new roof, new...
Read More →3rd November 2025, 7 months ago
If the Labour govt really wants to unlock house building, then they need to give developers encouragement by doing these five things: 1. Abolish section 106. 2. Scrap Nutrient Neutrality. 3. Prevent NIMBYS from blocking planning applications. 4. Boost the...
Read More →3rd November 2025, 7 months ago
Communists believe that all property is theft and that it ought to belong to the people, not individuals. The Labour govt is no different to ZANU PF in Zimbabwe and the Tripartite Alliance in South Africa.
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