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How the recession changed the pattern of spending on home improvements

How the recession changed the pattern of spending on home improvements

Look at the TV ads that tease you to tart up your home and guess the age of the actors. I’d say from recent ads I’ve seen they tend to be young 30s to young 40s, with a few young-faced 50 and 60 year olds making it into ads promoting replacement windows. They seem a bit older than in ads of a few years ago, but from what I can make out, the message we have drawn from these ads…

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More families share homes as the squeeze on housing tightens

More families share homes as the squeeze on housing tightens

The number of homes being shared by two or more families has leapt almost 20% over the past two years, according to families and households data released last week. In 2010 the Office for National Statistics put the number of multi-family households at 237,000. In 2012 it stands at 281,000.