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Letter to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Herewith, is a copy of the material posted to the
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

29 Mar 2025

Dear Sirs,

In answer to your request for comment, actually, as a post-war born male, having trained in the property sector and qualified, including in the vital business of how to value all property (as well as housing) I can see, first-hand, how the whole arrangement of using selling agents to market housing is no longer fit for purpose, especially in this modern age. 

A new and dynamic way of trading in vacant housing is therefore long overdue.

Also, if our present Labour government really does want to stimulate new house building to the extent envisioned, this will have to depend on completely changing how houses are bought and sold as well as having to devolve town planning decisions to the relevant towns and parishes themselves. After considering this it is clear that trying to decide all planning matters from as far away as Westminster, is simply a recipe for failure.

If it interests you to know more, please search online for ‘The House Price Solution’.

Once the correct market prices are derived by setting up a network of buying agents, housing would sell swiftly and legal conveyancing could also be enhanced to cope with such a vital uplift in market sales (and purchases), including dealing with satisfying more of the current rental demand.

Owning one’s own home could then, once again, become a hope and aspiration for each and everyone to enjoy.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Hendry

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This site proposes changes to the whole way in which houses are marketed by estate agents as well as bringing in far more effective planning controls. 

For more information on the necessary house marketing changes, go to:

The house price affordability crisis

“Solving the affordability crisis”

Posted by: Peter Hendry, Consulting Valuation Surveyor
Author of:– The House Price Solution

Unless things change significantly along the lines explained, countless people will continue to experience considerable financial anxiety or pain so, please sign our petition.
The link below opens this is in a new tab for you to look at.

The cost-effective way to stabilise housing affordability across the whole of Britain

Your action in asking our government to debate this could help bring about all of these much needed changes.

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About The House PRICE Solution

The net cost of housing is an economic negative when it comes to national economic competitiveness.

This is what Britain must seek to improve in order to be more competitive as an independent nation.

The solution to this is therefore, to reduce the net cost of housing.

This will not be achieved by ‘simply’ trying to build more and more houses everywhere. In other words, the true solution is not to build, build, build at all !

The actual answer to the problem comes from recognising that there is too much money sloshing around in profits from housing development and that this has been the case for some decades now.

In addition to this, if you choose to believe that the house builders of today, whom also own most of the land with the planning permissions for new housing, are somehow going to be persuaded to build and build, until their prices (and their profits) drop to marginal levels, that notion is simply not going to happen! They will just trim how much they actually build to accord with the profit levels which they shall decide to set as being their minima.

The real and only solution would be to resolve the ‘market economic’ aspects of the housing problem instead.

This can only be done by reducing the crazy amount of money going into the supplying of all housing as an entity.

For more on this please read our earlier posts on The House PRICE Solution.

The House Price Solution

Posted by: Peter Hendry, a retired property valuer
Author of:– The House Price Solution

Please also note. Unless things change significantly along the lines explained, countless people will continue to experience considerable financial discomfort concerning housing costs. If you agree please sign our petition.
Your action in asking our government to properly debate this would help to bring about these much needed changes.
The link below opens the petition in a new tab for you to look at and sign.

The cost-effective way to stabilise housing affordability across the whole of Britain