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Daniel Bentley

David Bentley is co-author of the Civitas report "Finding Shelter: Overseas investment in the UK housing market".

Help to Buy ISAs are a great election gimmick. That’s a relief, because they’re no good for first-time buyers

Help to Buy ISAs are eye-catching - but useless.

By Daniel Bentley

Help to Buy ISAs are a great election gimmick. That’s a relief, because they’re no good for first-time buyers

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Labour must be bolder about curbing the growth of landlord-investors

The Lyons review is too timid about the principle of putting first-time buyers at the front of the queue.

By Daniel Bentley

This is no recovery, it is a spending boom powered by unsustainable house price rises

Having failed to usher in the export-led recovery he promised early in the coalition, the Chancellor instead latched onto house price…

By Daniel Bentley

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