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How did houses get so expensive?

5 October 2020

Professor Yolande Barnes (UCL Bartlett Real Estate Institute) compares UK housing prices from the 1970s to today and explains how a combination of economic factors including inflation, rising incomes and dual earners have helped push up house prices over the last fifty years.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours at 50’ (from 18 mins 20 secs)