The housing crisis will not be solved by curbing speculation alone | Anne Perkins

The IPPR’s call to freeze land prices is right – but it will take more than a tweak of land supply mechanics to fix the messThe increase in the value of land that has, or just might get, consent for housing verges on the incredible. This is not any old increase in value. It’s way beyond the increase in the value of your one-bedroom flat, even back in the day when it earned more in a week than you did. No, farmland with planning permission goes up at least a hundredfold, and in