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A little-noticed change in Britain's housing market spells trouble for everybody
5 August 2017
A little-noticed change in Britain’s housing market spells trouble for everybody
Snippet: ...n has risen by 30% in real terms (though recent changes have lightened the load slightly). The need to pay thousands of pounds upfront makes upping sticks harder. According to a recent paper from Christian Hilber of the London School of Economics and Teemu Lyytikäine...
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‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labor Market?’, Christian A.L. Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen, SERC Discussion Paper No.216, June 2017
http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/textonly/SERC/publications/download/sercdp0216.pdf