... especially as most of the article is the usual Home-Owner-Ist drivel.
From City AM, the concluding paragraph is:
If politicians want to smooth out this distorted [housing] market, they should make moving house as easy as possible for everyone.
Scrapping stamp duty completely and making up the difference elsewhere – whether with more progressive council tax bands or a new land tax – is the only way to get the market moving again, regardless of Brexit.
Once I dipt into the future
6 hours ago
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Interesting development: London media used to be very much in favour of booming property prices, when most Londoners were owner-occupiers or other speculators. My guess is that now the London media realize that most of their prospective readers are renters or would-be upgraders.
B, true.
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