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Housing

The government-engineered housing boom will hold back the recovery

by Danisha Kazi

  The UK housing market has become detached from the real economy. Far from ‘levelling up’, measures by the Treasury and the Bank of …

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Lloyds is banking on Generation Rent

by Danisha Kazi

Lloyds Bank’s plans to become a private landlord highlight how banks and institutional investors treat housing solely as an asset to squeeze …

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Bank of England finally admits high house prices are determined by finance, not supply and demand

by Simon Youel

The Bank of England confirms Positive Money analysis of housing affordability In a duo of fascinating blog posts this month, Bank of …

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The History and Future of QE: 3 ways the Bank of England’s analysis falls short

by Rob Macquarie

As Positive Money likes to point out, quantitative easing (QE) is a policy almost without historical precedent. With only scant and rather …

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Philip Hammond’s other deficit

by David Clarke

Philip Hammond delivered yesterday’s budget in the context of the worst decade for real wage growth in living memory, and at time when …

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Have rising house prices reached their limit?

by Positive Money

UK house prices are “stagnating”, having declined in the last three months; it's the first quarterly fall since being on the cusp of the …

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Banks are lending to buy houses, not build businesses

by Geoff Tily (Guest Author)

The days of the credit crunch can seem to be well and truly behind us. 2016 was the second successive year when bank lending to the economy …

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Wealth ‘halved in a decade’ for people in their 30s: What’s money got to do with it?

by Frank Van Lerven

A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that people in their early 30s are half as wealthy as people of the same age …

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“Property better investment than pensions”, says Bank of England’s chief economist – but what about the housing crisis?

by Frank Van Lerven

The chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has recently claimed that property is a better investment for retirement than a …

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