Estate agents reassured by support for open market
Tuesday 25th January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
REPRESENTATIVES from three estate agents met members of the Population Policy Group yesterday to discuss the wide-ranging review of how to manage the island’s growing population.
Chief Minister Lyndon Trott (pictured) also attended the meeting as a working party from Martel Maides, Cooper Brouard and Swoffers looked to ‘fully understand’ the consultation process.
The 187-page document was released last week and detailed a variety of possibilities for reforming the housing laws.
These included scrapping housing licences, the introduction of work permits, questioning whether the open market should continue in its current form and islanders potentially losing the right to return if they have lived away from Guernsey for a long time.
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Cor damme, will you never learn!? Guernsey would still be overcrowded if the population was reduced by a third! You need high rise buildings to house more people, and that, in my view, is unacceptable. The only way left now is land reclaimation combined with a bar to further immigration. Those of you who are poor and without hope I advise to migrate to Australia. There’s two ways to get there: legally and as an illegal immigrant in your own or borrowed boat.
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What was discussed?
Did the agents mention that they were on a % of any property sold? It is in their interest to keep the prices inflated as they earn a proportionate amount.
It is outrageous that the PPG should be meeting with the commercial sector for housing – what about probity? Decisions made can be influenced, as is seen elsewhere in the world, by a few back handers.
Meetings such as those should be recorded and minuted and copies of the transcript freely available.
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Agree with Darren about the freedom of information from such meetings.
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does the CM think he is really King of the Castle and has the rights without consulting with the Islanders, to make any statement about housing.
If so then it is time we kicked his you-know-what forever.
However in fairness, both to CM and the people; a statement should come, and quickly from the CM on the outcome in full of the aforementioned meeting.
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