Description
In August 2025, the UK housing market faces a historic turning point. Prices have already fallen 17% in real terms since 2022—and may not bottom out until 2028. For first-time buyers, this is long-awaited relief. For existing owners, it feels like disaster. But what if lower prices aren’t the problem, but the solution?
This book challenges the tired mantra that Britain must “build more houses.” The deeper dysfunction is our fixation on homes as speculative assets. True stability will come only when prices fall and stay down, breaking the destructive boom-and-bust cycle.
The authors outline three practical pathways: tighter mortgage controls, public land ownership for large-scale housebuilding, and the long-debated Land Value Tax. Together, they offer a blueprint for affordable housing that serves society, not speculation.
Timely, provocative, and unapologetically radical, this is essential reading for anyone who has ever asked: Why is Britain’s housing market so broken—and how can we finally fix it?
