Global housing market pain has echoes of crash thirty years ago and it could be worse this time
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When COVID sent the U.K. economy into lockdown in 2020, the government jumped in to help the property market by cutting a tax on purchases. The temporary measure triggered a kind of mania among buyers, who responded by bidding up average prices by £31,000 (US$35,000) — more than double the maximum tax saving.
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