How do you see property panning out under a Labour government?

[KievLoverTwo]

I wasn't focused on politics or house buying or green initiatives when they were last in power.

What does seem clear is the party has to be more right leaning to appease the Tory voter base and overseas investors, I guess because we have precisely diddly squat economic growth and barely a pot to piss in. I don't know what growth was like under Labour, but it's somewhat irrelevant, because we have to think about what they might inherit.

Educate me with your memories of the past, and any thoughts you have on how things might have go in the future.

I'll start off with an example thought: HMRC are cracking down on holiday lets, insisting air b and b and their counterparts produce six years of income data to chase tax evaders. I think this is the sort of thing Labour are likely to go after with a vengeance - at least if they are to appease their more left leaning supporters. But perhaps they also won't want to upset the apple cart too much and alienate the probably majority of second home owners who usually vote Conservative.

It used to be so much more clear cut. Now they all sort of merge into one.

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It's no longer a pipe dream. It's being discussed in boardrooms across the world.

I haven't been paying all that much attention to it so I might be barking up the wrong tree, but I think the general idea is to write off cross country debt and introducing this. Because most of the developed world is up to its eyeballs in debt and struggling to stay afloat.

Kudos to everyone posting here who, for the main, are being very respectful:)

like your idea re: key workers and housing. As well as people who work in the NHS and such like, wouldn't it also be a good idea to offer such housing to people prepared to train and stay in building trades, and other trades that are becoming increasingly important such as those working to improve energy efficiency and better the environment?

Two taxes I have always found bonkers. You can extend your house and virtually double its footprint and that doesn't trigger a council tax re-evaluation, you can live in it your entire life and not pay an extra penny, that only happens when you sell up and the next person pays more. You don't even get back tax for owning a home twice the size of the one you started out with.

Secondly, pensions get taxed when you draw them. What's the sense in taxing people with limited means, 45 years after they started work and first started contributing to private and state pensions? Why not tax as part of your salary and have all that extra money in the economy NOW, rather than government having to do really long term planning and juggling financial priorities as we continue to live to historic ages?

Labour could change the housing market by building (or encouraging councils to build) a lot of social housing for rent, though. That is something governments can do. The tories forced councils to sell off housing but would not allow them to use the proceeds to build new ones. That has contributed to the current problem for those renting, and has had a knock-on effect on house prices, making them more expensive.
Whether they will do anything about this or not- well, the manifestos may be out in a few months, if rumours about a May election prove to be correct.

As has construction, though that wont last.

People from Europe aren't coming here after Brexit and more developing economies don't construct housing like we do (so aren't really much use) nor have the tickets in gas and electrical safety.

"People from Europe aren't coming here after Brexit "

I don`t think you can use "Brexit" as a blanket term to pin the economic slow-down on, that is simply due to the cheap debt going away (and some quite serious geo-political situations stoking inflation) if the demand was there the builders would be here IMO.