"Richard Faulkner" wrote in message
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In message , MM
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There will be thousands of visitors in 2012. But well before then the
numbers living in the south east will rise dramatically as building
work for the games starts and grows. This can only mean that the
housing market will begin to pick up. Hopefully, this new mood of
optimism will then spread rapidly to other parts of the country,
including my street.

MM

Not quite sure why this should happen for something which only lasts for
a few weeks. Builders will drive down in gangs and stay in B & B's, or
live in the van. Or they will come from Eastern Europe and live in the
cheapest poor quality accommodation. When it's all over, they will clear
off with the money.

The major effect will be of making the immediate area more attractive to
live in, thus increasing prices locally, and making it attractive for
the developers - this is all that happened in Manchester with the
Commonwealth Games. Anything else was just the market doing its' stuff.

Are you saying Manchester never benefitted? Man City got a brand new superb
stadium out of it too.