Help to Buy means richer Builders

Britain, you have a problem: house prices in the East/South East have grown ridiculous. See 2014 house pricing data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that compares prices with the pre-crisis ones. +31.6!?!?!?! We all know that UK is very much London centered, and this is reflected in the graph above. The government doesn’t shy away from policy that are openly “pro-London” and while there are complaints, as an immigrant since 2007, I can see not much more than some “grumpiness” about it. It’s like Britons are “sort of ok with it”. ...

July 3, 2015 Â· 6 min Â· 1172 words