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What a great thread for a change

The purchase price is what you pay. At present, on second homes, the CGT allowance is £12k per annum. On a primary residence this would need to be higher, say 6% of the purchase price p/a. This would mean that the CGT allowance on a £300k house would be £18k pa. After 5 years you will have...

I couldn't argue with a capital gains tax where you get an allowance for each year for as long as you live there. That would discourage speculative buying.

Houses have to be maintained, they don’t repair themselves. Our house is 90 years old and has needed work doing, over the years, to the roof and to remedy porous brickwork. Add to that a new boiler, new floors, new roofs to garage and conservatory, redecoration etc and any financial gain over...

It’s very easy to use arbitrary figures to justify an argument. We bought our house in March 2008 and according to Zoopla, house prices in our area have increased by 45% since then. In the same period inflation has been 30%(Consumer Price Index - ONS)

From Wikipedia Would be interesting to see how those on here pigeonhole themselves Main article: Great British Class Survey On 2 April 2013 analysis of the results of a survey,[30] which was conducted by the BBC in 2011 and developed in collaboration with academic experts, was published...

We’ll nick this 1:2 once March and Alzate come on for Trossard and Stephens

Thought it was an NSC username

Alireza, Alireza, Reza Reza, Ali Ali ..... (repeat ad infinitum) To the tune of the Hare Khrisna Mantra

Willows Song by Magnet https://vimeo.com/98803860

Cannibals and Carpet Fitters deserves a mention

If the perimeter of the pitch is approx 400m and the seat widths are about 0.5m, allowing for access, about six rows of seats, would give you a capacity of 5000 (I think)

Trossard’s pass to Mooy, for his goal, was sublime

We’ve lacked an attacking midfielder who actually goes down the middle rather than spraying the ball to the wings all the time. His performance today was reminiscent of Vicente.

Eloquent, intelligent and unassuming in his post match interview. Good for him, he’ll take a lot of confidence from this, which is everything.

>> Phantom menace << A little something to chew on During the filming of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith, crew members on set kept walking into the soundstage loos to find that someone had been laying huge, coiled turds on top of the closed toilet lids. This mystery dumper kept no...

My greatest contrafibulations on this thread it has lead to a pericombobulation of differing views

Spend what you can afford. That’s what I do.