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Di tells us in his blog what the experience of being pregnant in England .

Congratulations Di!

Link:
Mother in UK (Say yes)

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"At the moment, is nothing more than a dance of numbers: 12% of the value of the home vanished in a single year by 71% fewer mortgages granted, number of lower purchases in the last 30 years less than EUR 15,000 million in bank loans, one of every seven homes in two years provided that worth less than the outstanding balance of the mortgage foreclosure increased by 24%, 45000 families at risk of losing your home.

These figures are fascinating. headlines appear on the covers of newspapers and television news headers. The house is our great and fundamental national obsession. to an end almost unique in the world - certainly in Europe - we each tick of the market with fascination. When he is in trouble, it's as if the soul of the nation was at stake

.(...) "With the help of successive governments, delighted that we felt rich, satisfied and likely to vote for them, and a campus of profit-hungry financial institutions embarked on a reckless lending spree, we have become mere well what should be a basic human right to have a roof over our heads "

These apocalyptic paragraphs I cite do not refer to Spain, but the United Kingdom. I have extracted from a report published in the Guardian a few days ago about the dire situation in the housing market in this country. The UK, along with Ireland and Spain seem to be the countries most harshly are feeling the real estate bubble burst.

I'm no expert in this field nor am I aware of the rainfall figures and statistics that continuously irrigated through the media, but to force the nature of the crisis must be different. In 2006, in full prosperity, the United Kingdom were built just 185,000 new homes. That same year, 865,561 in Spain endorsed them, and remember that the UK population is 40% higher than that of Spain.

This difference can be seen clearly to move to England. It is very rare to find on the outskirts of towns and cities, large areas of residential construction so common in Spain, where the crane is a permanent feature of the landscape. Of course, in England builds new apartment together, but are nearly always small developments of flats few dozen, usually within the village.

Generally, the authorities are reluctant to authorize the development of land on the outskirts of towns. Perhaps because they have no need to re-coup financed, or because of opposition from residents who fear that new developments do to lower the price of housing in the area. There is also the conviction that the growth of cities has to be contained. In fact, in England there are four legally defined green belts or green belts around the major towns (including London) where urban development is limited.

The housing shortage has done just that Gordon Brown announced in 2007 his claim that 240,000 dwellings were built annually in the coming years, a goal that the crisis very complicated to meet .

The picture, as you can see, is very different to Spain, where the leftovers are just kicking new homes. I think in the UK, be calm once the credit constraints, the housing market will pick up, for the simple fact that housing is a scarce commodity there. In Spain, with millions of unsold flats, I wonder if we will leave it so easily.

More information:
The Property Ladder (Parquestrit)

(The photos are of a new development of apartments large enough to have built in Bristol recently, so you can see an example of new housing in England).