Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement had much to say about fuel prices but very little to say about house prices. For the last ten years wages have grown faster than petrol prices but both have been dwarfed by the UK’s property market.
Average house prices have long outpaced wage growth and the gap only widened during the pandemic.
Since 2000, average wages have grown by 94 per cent. This sounds impressive enough until you compare them to house prices, which have grown by 224 per cent over the same period.
[See also: Reviews: Tenants by Vicky Spratt and Down and Out by Daniel Lavelle]
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