18-11-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com

House prices aren’t the issue – land prices are | Patrick Collinson

There’s a simple solution that will give us cheaper homes – if only the chancellor would listenWhile reporting on the recent court case where controversial landlord Fergus Wilson defended (but lost) his right to refuse to let to Indians and Pakistanis, I learned something about how he’s now making money. He is now far from being Britain’s biggest buy-to-let landlord. He’s down to 350 homes, from a peak of 1,000. And what’s he doing with the cash made from sale
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