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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by MisterPC on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:05PM (#15707777)
I don’t think you can really blame 3 conservative politicians for the home price boom in most western countries over the past 20 years! They weren’t even in power for a major part of the boom in the UK (Labour were in power from 1997-2010).

The most recent part of the increase has come from the slashing of interest rates to rock bottom following the global financial crisis and quantative easing, neither of which is the responsibility of the government.

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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by nvarsj on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:42PM (#15725346)
Yes it’s not their fault - just saying it’s not in their interest to improve things, and they didn’t. But you think government has no influence over house prices? How about help to buy schemes and similar? London bubble is pretty extreme even compared to most other places, and the median price has doubled in the last decade under the tories.
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