Housing is different though. We bought our house 12 years ago. We will not buy another house to live in for the foreseeable future. What has happened to house prices since 2011 plays no role in my co… (View Post)

Your policy is basically to make the country poorer so we can afford the housing stock we have, rather than expand our housing stock to allow the country to grow. It's thinking like this that ex… (View Post)

At higher interest rates you would have lower house prices but also fewer jobs and much higher interest payments so I'm not sure young housebuyers would be thanking you. Also a stronger GBP and … (View Post)

How would you do it? Simply add the house price to the CPI basket? With what kind of weight? Or would you go down the rental equivalence approach used in the US CPI and our own CPIH measure? (View Post)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_7_70000_Britannia A loud whistle and then this beautiful machine just powered past us at Denmark Hill, an unexpected bonus this morning. (View Post)