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Is buy-to-let regulation the answer to the housing crisis?

Published on 03/03/2015 By Tomas

  Published by The Economic Voice on Monday, 02 March 2015 by Ben Gosling   In October 2014, the Bank of England requested the power to place limits on both buy-to-let and residential mortgage lending. By using so-called ‘powers of direction’, the Bank’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) hoped to be able to direct financial sector […]