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Why we won’t see a house-price crash in 2021

Lockdown sent house prices berserk as cooped up home-workers fled for bigger properties in the country. And while they won’t rise quite as much this year, they’re not going to crash, says Merryn Somerset Webb. Here’s why.

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by: Merryn Somerset Webb
18 Jan 2021
People looking in an estate agent's window

People have been looking for bigger homes in the country

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