Most people think it’s a bad tax – here’s an alternative that could be much more palatable.
- Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
Stamp duty has been around for centuries but it is bad in principle and poor in execution.
Both sides have used the housing ladder to persuade voters in the EU referendum campaign. Are they right to do so?
We all know we have a crisis of housing supply and affordability. Over the past four years we have built on average 110,000 homes a year in England, less than the 150,000 homes built 110 years ago in 1904…
What a strange place the UK is - when the most important thing Britons spend money on becomes even less affordable, it’s received as good news. Because that is what “confidence returns to the housing market…
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