The housing market was halted on Thursday night by the Government after financial institutions said they could no longer operate properly.
Ministers are discouraging buyers from going ahead with house sales and purchases unless they have already exchanged contracts as part of wider efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, saying no one should move unless absolutely necessary.
The effect of the government saying “we strongly advise you not to do it” might well be to slow the housing market down to a near halt. But it’s still not true that the government has halted it. We didn’t actually elect Ritchie you know.
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The housing market has been put on hold because of the virus, not some government announcement. Nobody is looking at houses, the estate agents are closed, nobody wants strangers viewing their house. It will resume, probably with pent-up demand, as soon as restrictions come off. Of course there may be a surplus of dead people’s properties on the market in due course, but as death rates are NO DIFFERENT to a normal year, probably not.
Meanwhile the house builders are no longer even pretending to build. But I bet they are happily banking land
Here house building continues apace. The builders seem to practice social distancing quite well. The environment they work in has excellent ventilation. Significant amounts of UV light are available for disinfectant.
@BiND
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@Mohave Greenie
+1 yet spiteful prod noses want them all sent home. Also builders, gardeners etc probably have stronger than most immune systems