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Economic Outlook: House price hysteria is not justified ? for now

11 May 2014

Nipping it in the bud too soon, despite justifiable concerns about house prices in some areas, could backfire. Professor Paul Cheshire, in a spirited piece for the London School of Economics' CentrePiece magazine, estimates that from 1994 to 2012 between 1.6m and 2.3m fewer houses were built than were needed.

This article was published in The Sunday Times on May 11, 2014
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Related publications
Turning houses into gold: the failure of British planning, Paul Cheshire. Article in CentrePiece Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2014

Related links
Paul Cheshire webpage
Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) website

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