Your prop tweet is spot-on, @sebinsua. Yet investors, a great number of them overseas and who have no intention of occupying one of the thousands of flats, put huge sums into UK property development. They do not do that to solve our #housingcrisis
Regarding that, there was a quote in the article: "Redeveloped homes were taken off the market in October by developer Almacantar due to 'silly' offers from overseas investors." If they sit unoccupied it suggests the investor expects housing/rental prices to rise a lot. Oh dear.