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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

How have local house prices and house building changed across England?
See how house prices and house building have changed in your area, and compare how responsive building has been to prices in areas across England.
22 November 2024
Policy analysis

Spring Statement 2025: initial IFS response
In response to deteriorating global economic conditions, Rachel Reeves chose to fine-tune her spending plans to continue to meet her fiscal rules.
26 March 2025

How can policy boost productivity growth?
At this policy conference, four panels of experts gave 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
Academic research

Housing wealth, marital stability and labor supply: an intertemporal analysis
We study how house price shocks affect marital stability and household labor supply.
28 March 2025

Police infrastructure, police performance, and crime: evidence from austerity cuts
Focusing on a wave of austerity cuts, I show that police station closure increased violent crimes in census blocks near the defunct stations.
27 March 2025

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