2016-04-27

andrewducker: (Default)
2016-04-27 08:30 am

Almost impressed by this spammer



On the one hand, nice try to make it look like they're not spamming, but are actually offering useful advice. And on leaving a 12-hour gap between the two comments.

On the other hand, they should have made the link into an actual links. And, most importantly, not have posted the spam on a post from four years ago, where nobody but me would ever know it existed.
andrewducker: (Default)
2016-04-27 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 27-04-2016

andrewducker: (Default)
2016-04-27 07:04 pm

A government move I'm in favour of

Last year George Osborne announced that, soon, landlords wouldn't be able to offset tax against mortgage interest.

Today, I was keeping a friend company while they looked at a flat they were thinking of buying (to live in) and the seller was complaining that he was pushed into selling because of that change.

I had to resist the urge to cheer at him.

(Obviously, the long-term answer is to build a ton of new houses, so that there's enough supply to meet demand, in the places where people actually live nowadays. But removing the advantage that landlords have over buyers is still a good thing. And this is on top of the 3% stamp duty surcharge for a second home.)