What the price of gold reveals about UK house prices

As governments debase their currencies, paper money becomes an ever less reliable measure of an asset's true value. For that, we must use a genuine store of wealth: gold. Dominic Frisby looks at the real price of Britain's houses, and where they might go from here.

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