Higher interest rates mean the end of the party for property
As owners are forced to pay double or triple the interest on their mortgage, many will sell up.
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Navigate the complex landscape of the UK housing market with our comprehensive collection of articles including long-read features and in-depth analysis.
Rishi Sunak cannot save the housing market
The Prime Minister has done more than most to encourage new buyers into a needlessly overheated market.
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The Conservative dream of home ownership will evaporate in a few months
The average first-time buyer will be better off for only five months before higher mortgage payments overtake their stamp duty…
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Why are the Tories declaring war on housing?
From allowing no-fault evictions to dropping affordable housing, none of it makes sense.
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How the housing crisis shaped modern Britain
The country is blighted by landlordism, homelessness and Thatcher’s legacy.
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London’s housing crisis is worsening
There are 106,000 people searching for rooms in the capital, but fewer than 15,000 available.
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Boomers can’t believe their luck – so they claim it was all hard work
At last, a perfect summation of the view that blames young people for their struggles rather than decades of policy…
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Could a house price crash tame the UK’s depraved rental market?
What renters really need is more housing supply and more stability.
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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis
What do Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng really want? To maintain Britain’s standing as a rentier's paradise – and they…
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Making the UK a nation of savers
The cost-of-living crisis hits harder for those without emergency savings.
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Why the housing market is about to crash
The existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate.
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How the rise of buy-to-let landlords fuelled the housing crisis
First-time buyers have been priced out of the housing market by wealthier people.
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The building that remade London
One Hyde Park was meant to represent hope after recession almost ruined Britain’s property market. Its legacy is far more…
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This will be the tenth time I have moved in my adult life
It seems I can’t keep pace with “the market” and so I must up sticks and go.
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Britons want more houses built – even nearby
An exclusive poll shows that more people are recognising a housing crisis, and support action to address it.
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To fix England’s housing crisis, scrap Right to Buy
The government is more interested in headlines than housing reform.
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From the NS archive: The twenty-year wait
19 December 1980: Britain will soon be well on the way to recreating the slum housing problems of the Forties.
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How the UK has failed to build enough houses for decades
It is estimated that the amount of social housing completed each year needs to more than double.
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Don’t mess with mortgages – just build more houses
Boris Johnson's speech today added another item to the long list of policies that have done nothing to address the…
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Boris Johnson’s futile policy announcement is no answer to the housing crisis
Trapped in a cycle of repeat failed solutions, the government resurrects policy from the past.
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