Middlesbrough TS1 Property prices

The Royal Bank of Scotland First-Time Buyer (FTB) Property Index ranks

The Nation's Property Hotspots Unveiled for First-Time Buyers 5 September 2005 The Royal Bank of Scotland First-Time Buyer (FTB) Property Index ranks Britain's postcodes by desirability and potential of return on investment, to reveal the top 20 areas with most potential for first-time buyers Middlesbrough TS1 ranks number 2 on the list, TS1 came top offering a combination of exceptionally low house prices, around £130,000 below the national average, and excellent prospects for growth The study reveals five key factors in determining a likely property hotspot, the most important of which is a below average ratio of house prices to local earnings the other four factors, found in all of the top 20 housing hotspots, are strong growth in house prices, urban regeneration, good transport links and a young demographic Optimism is on the rise for first-time buyers, with a slight fall in interest rates and earnings growing healthily The Royal Bank of Scotland First-Time Buyer Property Index, launched today, reveals Britain's most promising property hotspots. The Index identifies the critical factors that help determine both the desirability of an area and its potential to offer a return on investment. It applies these factors to try to identify the possible housing hotspots of today. RBS gives first-time buyers optimism with property treasure trail The RBS study, conducted across Britain's 2,800 postcode districts 1, uses property data analysis and external experts (including 300 chartered surveyors and local estate agents) to examine a wide range of factors affecting potential future house price growth, together with current desirability for first-time buyers. All of the factors, when weighted and combined, provide an overall scoring for each area, allowing them to be ranked. The national top 20 table details the top two districts from each of the ten regional tables compiled. The regional tables consist of the top 10 areas in each region across Britain. Buying in an up-and-coming property hotspot, can help first-time buyers climb the ladder faster to their ideal property or location in the future. The Index reveals that for savvy house hunters, the most crucial aspects determining future return on investment are the low house price to high income ratio and the recent house price growth rate of the area, alongside any regeneration prospects. The main factors determining the current attractiveness of an area are the quality of transport links and the area's demographic (especially the age of the population).

RBS TS1 Middlesbrough Hotspot

Middlesbrough TS1 Gresham Hot houses

The Nation's Property Hotspots Unveiled for First-Time Buyers 5 September 2005

Central Middlesbrough - where 1,500 homes are earmarked for demolition - has been pinpointed as the property hotspot of the North-east. The area is also placed second in the UK in a study of areas with the most potential for first-time buyers. The survey was conducted by the Royal Bank of Scotland and aims to identify the most promising property hotspots in the region and the country. It says TS1 is "an ideal place for today's first time buyers to invest". "Growth over the past 12 months is almost double the national average and the price-earnings ratio is relatively low. These factors, combined with large-scale regeneration programmes that have provided £500m investment across Middlesbrough, have helped to make Teesside a great investment for those about to purchase their first home," it says. Campaigners say the results expose the "smokescreen" made by Middlesbrough council chiefs, who claim there is no demand for homes in Gresham - an area earmarked for demolition, which sits at the heart of TS1. Anti-demolition campaigner and Gresham ward councillor Ken Walker said: "The results of this survey vindicate our argument. We and the residents have been saying that house prices have rocketed in the last 18 months and the sales of properties had never been so healthy until the bombshell of July 20 when the council announced the details of the proposed demolitions. "I do not find the survey results surprising. The survey demonstrates these proposals were never about the housing stock, which overall is sound. "In the 'Gems' streets, houses were fetching around £50,000 and in other parts of the demolition area houses were selling for around £60,000. Eighteen months ago you would have struggled to get £20,000. Is all that an indication of a market where the bottom has fallen out?" said Cllr Walker. Middlesbrough Council's Executive councillor for regeneration, Dave Budd, says the essence of the survey results is that houses in central Middlesbrough area are cheap. He said: "To provide the quality of life for people in the area, it was necessary to tackle the problem of too many terraced houses for the number of people wanting to live in them. "In essence what this survey says is that houses in Central Middlesbrough area cheap. We knew that already and we also know from independent, detailed research that traditional first-time buyers - families we want to attract to this area - are not the people who are snapping them up. The survey is quite right when it refers to Middlesbrough's huge potential and massive investment that is being put in. "Our plans for housing in the inner area, with 750 new homes and a major improvement of the local environment are part and parcel of these plans but they will not create the quality of life we all want unless we tackle the fact there are more terraced houses in the area than there are people wanting to live there." The hotspot index reveals the most crucial aspects, determining the future return on investment, are the low house prices to high income ratio and the recent house price growth rate of an area alongside any regeneration prospects. In the North-east the survey also puts North Ormesby in third. Hartlepool is 6th, Ferryhill 7th and East Central Middlesbrough 9th. The TS1 postcode area includes five Middlesbrough wards - Middlehaven, Gresham, University, Park and Linthorpe.

Middlesbrough Demolished Housing and housing waiting lists

 in Middlesbrough in 2007 both are on the up and rising

Honesty trust and integrity... once believed to be the foundation stones of public office... should be under scrutiny at Middlesbrough... hundreds of houses have been demolished during the reign of Mayor Ray Mallon.. housing at St Hilda's, West Lane, Whinney Banks, Grovehill, Saltersgill and North Ormesby... Middlesbrough Executive not content with this scale of housing destruction... still have their eyes & Bulldozers firmly clamped on demolishing up to 1500 more houses in Gresham... it's strange housing policy when official Government figures dated 2009 clearly show a housing waiting list number of 4,746... the Housing Charity Shelter go even further to claim with socal lettings in Middlesbrough during 2008/9 of only 1,294... this backlog of 4,746 on the housing waiting list will take 3.67 years to clear... of course these figures do not take into account people who by reason of age, change of circumstance and newcomers into Middlesbrough in 2009/10... what is not explained is where did the thousands of people on the housing waiting lists from 1997 to 2007 go...

Charity Shelter Housing facts Middlesbrough

• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 1997 = 3,585
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 1998 = 3,567
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 1999 = 3,123
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2000 = 3,312
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2001 = 2,912
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2002 = 2,921
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2003 = 3,331
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2004 = 4,324
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2005 = 5,217
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2006 = 7,456
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2007 = 10,315

Government Hansard Housing waiting list figures for Middlesbrough above... is it believable Middlesbrough managed to house some 5,569 between 2007/8... whist demolishing housing in a well publicised frenzy... remember Ray Mallon was pictured driving the Bulldozer at Grovehill... some serious questions need answering about these facts of the vanishing housing and people on the waiting lists...

Middlebrough updated housing waiting lists covering 2008 & 2009 & 2010 the 2010 figures are estimated on MBC plans to demolish hundreds of more homes in Gresham & Grovehill during the next few months it should be noted the figures for 2009 have been massaged down the figure should read 14,746 copies of the original numbers before manipulation are available this creative accounting leads to serious questions of who where and when massaged the 2008 & 2009 figures

• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2008 = 11,934
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2009 = 4,746
• Middlesbrough housing waiting list in 2010 are estimated to be in the region of = 17,315 or more

MBC Executive Favorite Publications

1001 Middlesbrough Executive Spins about Middlesbrough Housing Failure

town houses are criminal - people want three bedrooms large gardens and garage - MBC comply by consenting to mass developments of multi story appartments - are MBC Executive possibly confused with their own Spin and sleaze - are the new build appartments - a gentrified renaming of what are little more than FLATS? - animals will not be allowed in the new build Appartments (flats) - as there is not enough room for a goldfish bowl - never mind room to swing a cat - concierge charges will be on average £700.00 per annum - it would be much cheaper to buy a doorbell - site maintainance charges are expected to be a similar amount - which seems exorbarant for window box size gardens.

The above list is from the MBC Executive good read list.

Middlesbrough Council vacancies

1001 Mbro Demolition job vacancies.. please apply soon before the plans are changed again again again..

Middlesbrough Executive's favourite authors

 Middlesbrough 2010 demolition and spin are on the up

Middlesbrough Empty Properties 23 June 2009

On the up and and rising despite 4,746 on housing waiting list

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what his most recent estimate is of the number of empty dwellings in England, the North East, Teesside and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.

Mr. Ian Austin: Details of the total number of empty dwellings reported by local authorities in October 2008 are shown in the following table.

Total number of empty dwellings

• Middlesbrough 2,716
• Redcar and Cleveland 2,196
• Teesside 10,123
• North East 50,623
• England 784,022

Government figures for Empty Houses in Middlesbrough

Council Housing Middlesbrough April 2009 figures

Hansard 4 Jun 2007: Column 179W - Council Housing: Middlesbrough

Yvette Cooper: The constituency of Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland covers a large proportion of the Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough council areas. Information is not collected at the constituency level, only at local authority level and includes households rather than people. The number of households on the waiting list for social housing in (b) (i) Middlesbrough and (ii) Redcar and Cleveland, as at 1 April each year, is published on the Communities and Local Government website in table 600. The links for this table is given as follows, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House:

numbers of households in Middlesbrough on housing waiting list as of April 2009

link Middlesbrough housing waiting lists

Middlesbrough Housing waiting list April 2009

Council Housing: Waiting Lists 23 Jun 2009 : Column 832W

Hansard 23 June 2009: Column 832W - Council Housing: Middlesbrough

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were on local authority housing waiting lists in Castle Point (a) on the latest date for which figures are available, (b) in each of the last five years and (c) in 1997. [282067] Mr. Ian Austin: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 15 June 2009, Official Report, column 17W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne).

House of Commons 23 Jun 2009 : Column 832W housing waiting lists

Council Housing: Waiting Lists

Hansard 4 Jun 2007: Column 179W - Council Housing: Middlesbrough

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people are on a local authority housing waiting list in Stockport; and how many were on such a list in (a) 2004 and (b) 1999. [279755] Mr. Ian Austin: Information is available on numbers of households rather than people. The number of households registered on local authority housing waiting lists in each local authority, as at 1 April each year from 1997 to 2008, is published on the Communities and Local Government website in Table 600. The link for this table is as follows:

link Middlesbrough housing waiting lists

Housing waiting list April 2009

House of Commons 23 Jun 2009 : Column 832W housing waiting lists

if ever proof is needed of figures being manipulated by Middlesbrough Council could the above statement by Mr Ian Austin clearly show MBC have been busy cooking the books

"Mr. Ian Austin: Information is available on numbers of households rather than people. The number of households registered on local authority housing waiting lists in each local authority, as at 1 April each year from 1997 to 2008

also note "numbers of households rather than people"

therefore if more than one person lives is a household the true total number of people on housing waiting lists in Middlesbrough goes up exponentially this if correct indicates Middlesbrough Executive would stoop to any means to hide the truth about housing in Middlesbrough

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