Tag Archives: housing market

Buy-to-let: the elephant in the room?

By , Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 24 Comments

Channel Four News delivered the goods again last night with a great piece on the impact of buy-to-let investment on the housing market…

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The myth of home ownership

By , Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 7 Comments

Should politicians be peddling the idea that everyone should own their own home?

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Where are all the houses going to go?

By , Monday, 7 June 2010, 30 Comments

How can the government square the circle between lowering housing density and protecting green belt land?

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Government admits failure, sort of

By , Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 4 Comments

The government is building council houses again so is this an admission that thirty years of housing policy has failed?

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How did we get into such a mess?

By , Monday, 14 September 2009, Be the first to comment

HousingHow the hell did this happen? Read more »

Young people turning their backs on homeownership

By , Monday, 15 June 2009, 1 Comment

For sale signsIs the Great British love affair with homeownership drawing to a close?

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Housing got us into this mess and it can get us out

By , Thursday, 14 May 2009, 3 Comments

It’s a brave man who calls the bottom of the housing market and an even braver one who calls the bottom of wider economic crisis. Yesterday Bank of England governor Mervyn King was doing neither of these things, going out of his way to play down any talk of green shoots and lower expectations of a quick recovery.

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