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How much foreign investment has driven house prices up by

Billions of pounds flowing into the U.K.鈥檚 property market from foreign investors has driven up house prices by around 20% in the past 15 years, according to a new study from King鈥檚 College London. House prices in London and the South-East held up, and then increased rapidly after the crash, because it was a worldwide slump rather than just a national recession. Foreign money poured into the U.K. housing market as a safe haven. This study is the first to try to put some sort of figure on the difference that foreign money may have made to the average price of a home in England and Wales. Without any foreign buyers, it calculates that a home would have cost 拢174k on average, rather than the 拢215k it is today. Winifred Robinson presents.

First broadcast on You & Yours, 4 April 2018.

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