Houses destroyed in Wars

[interele]

If you had a house with a mortgage in the second world war and it got destroyed
was there any compensation/write off of the mortgage or was it just tough and you
had a mortgage on a big pile of bricks ?

Ta

M

[webbo3]

No idea, but what a good question, hope you get an answer.


Dave.

[hc4361]

Good info here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ies/93/a5113793.shtml

[dundurn]

http://hansard.millba...eb/12/war-damage-bill

[atalanta]

My father bought a house in London for £200 at the end of the war, but it had some bomb damage. The government gave him a grant of £200 to repair it.

[Mosaic]

I think there was a great deal of emergency re-housing, plus squatting in empty property, plus the people in the hardest hit zones were most likely to be renting anyway. How landlords were compensated would be interesting to find out.

[Mosaic]

Brilliant link Dundurn.
I think we also need to remember the relatively low cost of property back then as well.