Posts tagged as house prices

24 Jul 2007

The housing green paper: more shoddy work on the foundations

‘No nonsense thinking’ is exciting because it leads to practical ideas about living your life which bring tangible rewards. The UK’s conventional wisdom that owning your own home will bring greater rewards than renting or leasing is a good example of how slavery to an idea can lead on to slavery to a bank or a job and damage life goals requiring money that may have even greater value, such as learning new skills, family-raising and retirement saving.

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29 Jun 2007

Common sense on house prices: write on, Sharlene

Standing in for the outgoing editor of the FT’s Money section, Sharlene Goff penned a very thoughtful Serious Money column this week end, raising some very logical questions about the implications of government policy for first-time house buyers. She makes three challenging propositions.

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13 May 2007

The housing ladder: what exactly pushes it out of reach?

Surely a silly question! Rising prices relative to income make house prices unaffordable. I’m not a property economist but if I apply my expertise in both financial asset pricing and personal financial planning, I think I gain further insights. I hope some property experts will take these further.

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15 Apr 2007

Update on real house prices

The Nationwide index in real terms was up 1.3% in the first quarter. Londoners have seen a feeding frenzy but the boom in financial and related services has renewed house price growth beyond the capital. Our long-run charts of real house prices are updated below. The unusual feature is not the degree of deviation from trend but its persistence – making lots of ’stale bears’.

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25 Nov 2006

More useless house price forecasts?

The FT didn’t publish my letter challenging John Kay’s article rubbishing attempts to model and forecast house prices. Last Wednesday it reported on its front page a research report by Morgan Stanley economist Professor David Miles, author of a report on housing finance for the government, headlined “Housing bust ‘likely in the next few years’”.

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