{"id":145403,"date":"2024-06-21T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-disastrous-tory-policy-blew-up-the-housing-market\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:10:14","slug":"how-a-disastrous-tory-policy-blew-up-the-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-disastrous-tory-policy-blew-up-the-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"How a disastrous Tory policy blew up the housing market"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn the second instalment of a special series on the emblems of Tory Britain, Oliver Wainwright looks at help to buy, a scheme that cost billions, pushed up prices, did almost nothing for new buyers \u2013 but made house builders a lot of moneyWith a penthouse in Santa Monica, a rambling Georgian manor in North Yorkshire and a five-bedroom mews house in Kensington, Rishi Sunak knows a thing or two about the joys of home ownership. \u201cI want everyone to feel what I felt when I got the keys to my first flat,\u201d Sunak said in his recent televised debate with Keir Starmer, recalling the moment he stepped into his South Ken pied-\u00e0-terre for the first time.Launching his election manifesto, Sunak reiterated the Tory party\u2019s eternal commitment to estate agents, house builders and the transformational power of bricks and mortar. \u201cFrom Macmillan to Thatcher to today,\u201d he declared, \u201cit is we Conservatives who are the party of the property-owning democracy in this country.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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