MAGNeT said:
If there is an agency it can keep a tab on it
What basically happens is this
Are the banks keeping property prices up? - dnaindia.com
The jist of that article is this..
The banks have used your money to give it as a loan to real estate developers. Their act of giving the loan to real estate developers gives them badly needed cash. The real estate developers no longer need to sell their real estate to get "cash flow" to stay alive. They got the money from the banks.
Now, the real estate developers can charge you a higher price for real estate.
To which my question is How long for
This isn't really price fixing, you can only fix the price when you have a monopoly over the product you are selling. If the price is high ppl will not buy or will buy less and these develeopers still have to make their interest payments for these loans.
If they sell less they get into a bigger hole which will eat into their profits. Now will they be able to take out more loans, doubtful.
Maybe, you wish to give your deposit to a bank that only gives real estate loans to individuals who buy homes or offices or shops?
You can deal with banks that refuse to give money to real estate developers.
This small act will force the real estate developers to sell those 1,61,605 homes that they would need to sell to pay back the loans from your bank deposits. And then you can buy your real estate at a more "real" price.
What is 'real' price
The question to be asked is should those who own a home suffer a bigger loss in value so that those that want to buy a home can afford one ?
IF the price drops too much no one wants to sell, this will compound the problem where there are fewer buyers than already present.
Fixing prices is fine so long as you can deal with the after effects, many times those are out of one's control and in general can be worse than the short problem being addressed in the first place. Course this is just plain economics, politics can and always does colour better judgement.
Were the loans made to the real-estate developers a good decison ?
..meaning will they be able to pay them back or will it result in a bigger problem. See before you buy your house your money is in the bank and being loaned out, now if those loans don't all fail you are ok otherwise you end up losing the nest. This is the bigger problem i think than how soon you can buy your next home.
Lord Nemesis said:
Well I never understood what it achieves (definitely not the upheaval of women). Maybe except for the fact that some women somehow do not feel equal to men unless they get special treatment/privileges. (Similar to the way some women like to express their equality with men by cutting to the counter at long queues saying that they have equal rights :rofl
What i was heard was that women in general get paid less than men so should correspondingly pay less taxes. SO i said this is what the different tax brackets are for and then questioned whether this assertion would actually institutionalise discrimination ie codify that they are not equal in law which presumably this idea is supposed to counter.
Then the other party (a woman with a phd) got a little irritated and discussion kinda stopped :ashamed:
6pack said:
Basis for having different tax slab might be because the government wants to appeal to the working women and the retired class. They think that a lower tax for the working women will translate to better vote banks to them.
Excellent you nailed it
