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How is tax damaging the housing market?
We discuss how taxes like capital gains, stamp duty, and council tax impact the housing market, affecting affordability, renting, and homeownership.
18 December 2024

Buying a home in London in your twenties is difficult, but not impossible
Foregoing a degree for an apprenticeship, saving during Covid and being born and bred in the capital have helped. With sky-high rents, others are not.
25 November 2024

Housing supply elasticities and percentage changes in number of properties and house prices across England, 1996 to 2021
The responsiveness of housing supply to local demand is highest in the East of England and lowest in and around London and in the North-West.
22 November 2024
Policy analysis

How can policy boost productivity growth?
At this policy conference, four panels of experts will give their perspectives and recommendations on four key areas of the UK’s productivity problem.

Share of 25- to 34-year-olds living with parents up by over a third since the mid 2000s
The rise in people living with their parents has been concentrated among those in their late 20s and varies substantially by ethnicity.
11 January 2025

Growth in number of homes and population between 1996 and 2021 by English region
London is the only region where population growth has significantly outpaced growth in housing supply.
1 August 2024
Academic research

The determinants of local housing supply in England
We estimate local housing supply elasticities for 325 local authorities and 6,788 census tract areas in England.
4 February 2025

Tax preferences and housing affordability: Exploration using a life-cycle model
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of demand for housing, including owner occupied housing, investment property and liquid assets.
21 October 2024

The determinants of local housing supply in England
1 August 2024