The Kintyre Forum

I attended a meeting the other night which a prepresentative from ACHA, the new housing assoication in Argyll, had a representative who gave an excellent, informative speech on their takeover.

One of the points that was discussed was the 'right to buy' scheme which was in place with Council housing and will remain in place with ACHA.

The lady did however, say she disagreed with the scheme and in particular in remote locations like Argyll where people are finding it hard to get onto the housing market due to so many houses being bought up as second homes etc - ex Council flats in places like Mull are selling for well in excess of £100,000 now to people buying them for holiday homes. This is now even apparent in Kintyre.

The question is, would you be willing to sell your house for less if you know it was going to a family locally who need it, a local couple or even people moving to the area or would you say "stuff it, I don't care!" and sell it to someone as a holiday home and run with the cash! ????

Ahm shure maist folk wid say that they wid sell it fur less than they could get for it jeest sos a local cood buy it an sellit on for a bluddy fortune.

Ah also think that a horse disnae hae a long face an that ahm positive that guy that geed me his autograph last night reely wis Elvis. Ahm also certain that yi shood get yirsel a new jeckit, make shure its a straight wan.

I would take the highest offer.

Remember, you would need to purchase another home with the proceeds of the sale, so taking less than the market value would disadvantage you when buying another home for full market value (or above)

Even if it was £1 more

the p wrote:Even if it was £1 more

No, but £500 or more yes. Unless i detested the highest bidder...lol.

where I used to live in dorset, ex-council houses had clauses in their contracts, written in by the council at the original sale, that ensured only people who worked locally were able to buy the house. I know this was concrete in law 'cos i know someone who bought one, but i'm not sure how it actually works. Perhaps for the sake of the community the councils could do something similar here, Obviously, not the best idea for the seller, but the bigger picture (ie the local community) would benefit from full-timers living there as opposed to holiday makers.
I would like to think i would think of my local neighbourhood if I were selling a house, but i have never sold a one, so i really don't know. Would greed take over from integrity? I know i would feel I had let myself down if it did in my case. x

I'd like to think I would be like you Witchnettle - money isn't everything (but it does help!)

I think that should be put into effect here!

so if someone offered you £2000 more for your house and they were going to use it as a holiday home then you would say NO just to sell it to a local? giesa break!

This subject was discussed in the Immigration thread starting on page 10 a few months back. You might be interested to read some of the points written on that thread.

http://www.kintyreforum.com/viewtopic.p ... &start=135

Council housing stock should never have been sold off in the first place. Bloody Thatcher !!

Trapper wrote:Council housing stock should never have been sold off in the first place. Bloody Thatcher !!

It's alright for you to say that having been bought up in a "bought" house, being able to buy their council house has enabled many people get on the propery ladder.

Trapper wrote:Council housing stock should never have been sold off in the first place. Bloody Thatcher !!

I don't think it has helped certain areas but as Sweltered says it has given people a chance they would have never had otherwise. (no need to be personal now Sweltered, tut, tut )

Bobbie

I missed the other thread completely - can you start again in here!

the p wrote:

Trapper wrote:Council housing stock should never have been sold off in the first place. Bloody Thatcher !!

I don't think it has helped certain areas but as Sweltered says it has given people a chance they would have never had otherwise. (no need to be personal now Sweltered, tut, tut )

Bobbie

I missed the other thread completely - can you start again in here!

Just speaking to him in the language he understands, as he is very good at it himself

it's alright for you to say that having been bought up in a "bought" house, being able to buy their council house has enabled many people get on the propery ladder.

Are you trying to say that I was bought in some type of celebrity adoption scandal!? My Dad did used to say I'd been left on the doorstep by 'Teenkers' but i never really believed him. Anyway I look too much like my grandfather (who lived in council houses most of his days, and was vehemently opposed to them being sold off) to have been bought.

Just speaking to him in the language he understands, as he is very good at it himself

I've never been personal on this forum, think you must be getting me mixed up with someone else..... ya fanny! And I'm pretty glad that you think I'm good at communicating in english, as that is the language I understand! Although I'm no bad at the dalintober gaelic as well.