TY - BOOK ED - New Economics Foundation TI - The financialisation of UK homes: the housing crisis, land and the banks PY - 2015/// PB - New Economics Foundation KW - Investment & Financialisaton KW - International KW - United Kingdom N1 - KEYWORDS: Financialisation, housing crisis, speculative investment N2 - UK average house prices are nine times incomes across England and Wales, and up to 20 times incomes in London and the South East. Why? In seven steps we explain the role of banks, supported by government policies - and point to some ways to cool the crisis UR - https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/496c07a5b30026d43a_d1m6i26iy.pdf ER -