What the price of gold says about Britain's house prices

When measured against the price of gold, UK house prices still have a very long way to fall. As Adrian Ash explains, we may only be half way to the bottom.

Beware the clamour to call the bottom in house prices. Because with a tired predictability, the UK experience of seeing "green shoots" in every new survey says the global bust has a long way to run yet.

People who bought UK residential real estate in 1973, for instance, took until 1986 to break-even, on average, after accounting for inflation.

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Adrian has written all things gold related from if it’s worth buying, what the real price of gold should be and what’s the point of gold for MoneyWeek. He has also written for other leading money titles on his gold expertise including Business Insider, Forbes, City A.M, Yahoo Finance and What Investment Magazine. Now Adrian is head of the research desk at BullionVault, a physical market for gold and silver for private investors online.