Robin Pearce, Author at Property118

Robin Pearce

To attain EPC C on one of my rentals that’s a ground floor flat, I’ll have to dig up and insulate the floor. So I’d have to fit new kit and bathroom too = Tenants evicted while work’s done. No...

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It's not a housing crisis. It's an immigration crisis. I'm a landlord in Southampton. 25yrs ago 5% of applicants were from abroad. Now 60% are. Legal net migration 745k last year =6000 more homes needed week 80% of migrants move...

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it's not a housing crisis. It's an immigration crisis. Houses & their plots don't dissapear. Our birthrate is roughly equal to our birthrate. Old people die & free up homes for the next generation. So we shouldn't need more houses....

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I don't believe anyone should be in this country illegally. I'm more than happy to perform right to rent checks & have done so many times since the law came in. Any land lord who isn't happy to, then don't...

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Few people are looking at the root cause of the housing crisis. Not that difficult is it. Keep pouring water into a full bucket it just overflows.  In a balanced population elderly pass on at roughly the same rate as young...

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Keir Starmer: Not all landlords are evil

20th July 2024, 2 years ago

Stop destroying our countryside with building & start controlling immigration instead. Legal net migration last year = 745k = 6000 new homes needed/week purely due to mass immigration !

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Reply to the comment left by Southern Boyuk at 20/07/2024 - 08:15Can't get out of it soon enough. I can get 5.5% by selling my flats & investing the equity in a fixed bond for doing nothing. Why would I...

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I'm a landlord in Southampton. 25 yrs ago 5% of applicants were from abroad. Now 60% are. Legal net migration 745k last year = 6k homes needed/week? 80% of migrants move into rentals = 5000 extra rentals needed/week? Huge extra...

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Reply to the comment left by Mike Thomas at 19/07/2024 - 22:48Which wouldn't solve problem of lack of homes due to mass immigration as landlords don't alter the ratio of homes to population size. Mass immigration does

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Its not a shortage of housing stock. 25 years ago 95% of applicants to rent my flats in Southampton were British. Now around 60% are. There's too many people due to mass immigration thus driving rents up. Legal net migration...

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You're taking a short term view ignoring the dynamics of the situation. You're not applying critical thinking & you're not considering the long term adverse consequences of mass immigration. Some questions for you.. 1] By your logic there is no...

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It's not a housing crisis its an immigration crisis. Legal net migration 745,000 last year = 6230 new homes needed every week mostly squashed into England.

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Higher GDP due to more people means no more GDP/capita. Just a lower quality of life due to increasing population density. More competition for homes, jobs & everything else. And more tarmac & concrete & traffic jams & less countryside

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London's already a tarmac jungle so you're not noticing the destruction of greenbelt outside of London due to mass immigration. The London mindset.. We must boost GDP & if it means importing a low paid workforce & people outside of...

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We've already got 1.5m unemployed. The more people you import the more you need. If we import nurses for example because we don't train enough, then we need more builders to build more homes for them. But then builders need...

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People who question the merits of absurdly high unsustainable levels of legal net migration, don't blame migrants. They blame irresponsible politicians for not setting a cap on numbers necessary to prevent overburden on housing, infrastructure & our environment etc.

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Legal net migration last year = 745k = 6,300 new homes needed/week. 80% of migrants seek out rental property when they arrive = 5,000 additional rental properties needed/week ? = Unprecedented extra demand. Meantime there's a govn't war on landlords...

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Reply to the comment left by Easy rider at 18/11/2023 - 14:25UKs overcrowded. We got enough car washers, delivery drivers &Turkish barbers we don't have enough homes for +1.6m unemployed. We do not need or want further population increase Englands'...

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Reply to the comment left by HC Mann at 18/11/2023 - 13:47"You keep calling it "an invasion" yet these are legal migrations to the uk in order to fill jobs." Illegal immigration is an invasion. Ref legal migration *Almost every...

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Reply to the comment left by Easy rider at 18/11/2023 - 09:20I agree 100%. Stop the boats. However most migration is legal. The govn't are dishing out visas like confetti. Legal net migration last year 606k = a pop'n the...

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Robin Pearce

Robin Pearce


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