Housing minister: Don't rely on property to fund retirement
Britain's property boom could be over for good and homeowners should no longer rely on their houses to fund retirement, housing minister Grant Shapps has warned.
He said ministers were hoping to engineer an era of ‘house price stability' in which property values would gradually be eroded by rising earnings, the Daily Mail reports. Shapps suggested in a ‘rational'...
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