property

Help to Buy: more popular, so far, than Right to Buy

Help to Buy: more popular, so far, than Right to Buy

It’s not often the Government goes out of its way to tell people that one of its policies hasn’t been a runaway success, but that’s precisely what seems to be happening today with Help to Buy. The Treasury has published the first figures on the take-up of

Britain's property disaster was entirely avoidable

Britain's property disaster was entirely avoidable

My column in this week’s Times deals with the long-term causes of Britain’s property crisis. You can read the full thing on their website (£) [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/columnists/article4095337.ece]but here’s an excerpt from the middle: As the 20th century wore on,

London's foreign "cash" property buyers may be less cash-rich than you think

London's foreign "cash" property buyers may be less cash-rich than you think

There are all sorts of explanations for the bubble in the London housing market [https://www.edmundconway.com/2014/04/five-signs-the-london-property-bubble-is-reaching-unsustainable-proportions/] , but as with all markets, in the end the truth lies somewhere between supply and demand. On the one hand, we know that there is a shortage of supply,