Entries from Brickonomics tagged with 'File on 4'
All house price indexes are flawed, but that makes them more useful
There has been a huge fuss over the Land Registry house price index with a lot of people seemingly getting hot under and over the collar. But why? What's the fuss? Is the Land Registry really behaving "criminally"....
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