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HOUSE prices have seen their biggest month-on-month leap for over a decade, new Land Registry figures revealed yesterday.
The 2.5 per cent increase was recorded in January and pushed the average house price in England and Wales to over £191,000.
It amounted to a £4,732 boost to the average property value since December — the largest monthly upswing recorded since June 2002.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON