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Why do house prices just keep marching higher?

Other asset prices may be dropping off as the second wave of Covid hits. But house prices just keep on climbing. John Stepek looks at what’s behind their unstoppable rise.

by: John Stepek
30 Oct 2020
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It will take more than a global pandemic to dent our dysfunctional property market

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