Homes are for living in – so why are they sites of great insecurity? Dinyar Godrej makes the case against the scandal and delusion of the property marketplace.
Pity the anxious average-income mortgage-paying ‘homeowner’!
The walls you would like to call your own close in. The mortgage, it would appear, extends beyond the grave. The small print reminding you that your home could be at risk if mortgage repayments aren’t kept up, returns to haunt, hugely magnified, in a time of flux and continuing crisis. And supposing you are forced out by circumstance – will the bloated price paid hold? Can anyone afford to buy? Or will it be the street?
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