The clouds darken for home buyers but the Government must stand firm 📧 Read HamishMcRae5's latest newsletter
Go back to those ONS numbers. The average house price in April was £286,500. In April 2021 it was £250,200, and in April 2018, £225,900. Of course, individual circumstances vary, but it is very difficult to make a moral argument for taxpayers’ money to be given to people sitting on a tax-free capital gain, albeit a paper one until they sell.
Building societies have a lot of experience with nursing borrowers through tough times. Unfortunately, far too many of them were turned into publicly quoted companies in the 1980s onwards and then taken over by banks. Nevertheless, some of the public-service ethos does remain, and the pressure on them is to give all the help they can.What does that look like? Well, a look at the largest building society, Nationwide, shows the principles that lenders can follow.
The crucial point here is that inflation will come down. It is coming down more slowly than the Bank of England expected and the rest of us hoped. But it is coming down in the US, where inflation rose a bit more quickly than here last year. Indeed, their
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