Will the Government get the housing market going?

The Chancellor’s efforts to engineer a sustainable, demand-led recovery in mortgage lending and housebuilding are unlikely to succeed. One possible outcome is that prices simply surge, pushing housing further beyond the reach of young and low income households. More likely, is that the anticipated boost to demand fails to materialise, so that the Chancellor’s stimulus has little impact.

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