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Exactly. As Southover Seagull has posted we're not even close to meeting demand, so prices won't go down. But, as I posted earlier, it's not infinite - just look at Spain

No, the price won't be high no matter how many houses get built. I believe that the B&H urban conurbation is expecting an increase of around 15,000 people in the next seven years - probably needing about 10,000 new homes to meet that demand. Yes, if we only build a few hundred, it won't make any...

Er... that's what I said. If the demand is higher than the supply then the price goes up; if the demand is lower than the supply, then the price goes up. That's basic economics. Take a look at the cost of houses in, say, Sunderland and Brighton. They're cities with very similar populations but a...

I haven't forgotten anything: we need to build about 150,000 to 300,000 houses a year to meet current demands and deal with projected increases. We're actually only building about 100,000. We need to build a lot more and, given the lack of sensible economic regional planning from this...

That is, of course, the real issue. You can't blame people for wanting to come where the jobs are (thanks, Norman Tebbit) and we have to build houses to accommodate them. Meanwhile, in the north of England, there are thousands of hectares of brownfield sites and houses are being sold off a few...

They wouldn't build them if they didn't think there was a market for them. The more properties there are, the more prices go down; the fewer there are, the more they go up. Not building them will not reduce prices for other properties one one little bit

Yep, B&H is cursed with more than its fair share of NIMBYs and BANANAs - and a fair few have popped up on this thread already. When will it stop? When a one-bed flat on the edge of Brighton costs £500k? A million? There's a crippling shortage of homes in the region and it has to be addressed at...