{"id":90010,"date":"2018-05-31T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oxbridge-owns-a-huge-amount-of-land-but-thats-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:03:08","slug":"oxbridge-owns-a-huge-amount-of-land-but-thats-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oxbridge-owns-a-huge-amount-of-land-but-thats-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxbridge owns a huge amount of land. But that's the tip of the iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe widespread monopoly on land ownership \u2013 by universities and organisations alike \u2013 has spiralled inequalities of wealth. The time has come to balance things outIt\u2019s often said that you can walk from Oxford to Cambridge without leaving land owned by the colleges. That\u2019s almost certainly a myth. But as the Guardian\u2019s recent investigation has revealed, they sure own one hell of a lot of land.England is owned by a tiny number of people and organisations \u2013 and the Oxbridge colleges, with their 126,000 acres of land and property portfolios worth some \u00a33.5bn, are among the largest institutional landowners. The Guardian\u2019s analysis is the most comprehensive since 1873. But why has it taken so long to find out? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The widespread monopoly on land ownership \u2013 by universities and organisations alike \u2013 has spiralled...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-npM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89832,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oxford-and-cambridge-university-colleges-own-property-worth-3-5bn\/","url_meta":{"origin":90010,"position":0},"title":"Oxford and Cambridge university colleges own property worth \u00a33.5bn","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r News that colleges own more land than Church of England follow revelation of collective assets worth \u00a321bn Oxford and Cambridge university colleges collectively own more land than the Church of England and boast a portfolio of property across the UK worth a staggering \u00a33.5bn, a Guardian investigation has found.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39991,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shoppers-champion-goes-on-the-offensive-over-uk-retails-sexist-surcharge\/","url_meta":{"origin":90010,"position":1},"title":"Shopper's champion goes on the offensive over UK retail's sexist surcharge","date":"January 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Labour MP Paula Sherriff plans more successes like repeal of the tampon tax with firms signing up to charter vowing not to indulge in gender pricingFirst day nerves got to Paula Sherriff. 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