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Is the deep-seated problem of housing supply really just about planning?

Is the deep-seated problem of housing supply really just about planning?

Does constraint on planning approvals restrict the supply of homes or does the demand for homes determine the level of planning approvals? Perhaps both work in tandem or parallel. These questions have bugged me for years. Here’s some fresh thought prompted by the release of the latest house-building figures and, in part, by concerns expressed over the weekend by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney about “a housing market that has deep, deep structural problems”. The housing market is a…

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Christmas sales come to the housing market

Christmas sales come to the housing market

It’s the run up to Christmas and we’re in a recession – well if not technically, we’re definitely suffering from the recession – so don’t be surprised to see redundancies on the rise and asking prices for homes on the decline. It is the nature of things. And in this regard we have not been let down by the price data research from the property websites Rightmove and FindaProperty. Both show the recent rally in asking prices reversing this month….

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