ilmscore | Who's getting rich from your mortgage?

Predictions from this Video

Total: 6
Correct: 0
Incorrect: 0
Pending: 6
Prediction
Topic
Status
Increased mortgage sizes will be the primary driver of middle-class wealth decline, particularly in the UK.
"as we go forward this increased size of mortgage is going to be the primary way in which we see the wealth of the middle class decline especially here in the UK"
Wealth Inequality
Pending
Ordinary families will increasingly own less property directly.
"there will be less direct owning of property by ordinary families"
Homeownership
Pending
Governments will increasingly encourage rich people to lend money (via mortgages) to ordinary people to maintain political stability and support homeownership.
"what you will see increasingly is the government need need to keep people owning property politically... to encourage rich people to lend that money and that money gets borrowed eventually by Ordinary People"
Government Policy
Pending
Governments will increasingly reduce mortgage eligibility checks and promote longer-term and multi-generational mortgages to help ordinary people buy homes.
"governments will see the only way to keep Ordinary People in houses is to encourage high levels of lending high levels of mortgages to do things like reduce the checks on mortgage eligibility to encourage things like longer term mortgages to encourage things like multigenerational mortgages"
Mortgage Market
Pending
Future generations (children and grandchildren) will face increasingly large mortgages (e.g., £1 million, £2 million) that they will be unable to repay.
"your kids will have larger and larger and larger mortgages they will have larger and larger amounts of debt you know it's already normal for an ordinary person to have half a million pound of debt in a mortgage that will become one million that will become 2 million and that means that your kids and your grandkids will end up with mortgages that they can never ever ever repay"
Household Debt
Pending
The wealthy will use interest income from mortgages to further inflate house prices, increasing competition for assets needed by future generations.
"the rich... can use that interest to push house prices up even further and I'll compete your your kids for the assets that they need"
House Prices
Pending