Last week’s news that house prices surged in February will have done little to dispel concerns that record low interest rates are contributing to the emergence of a renewed house price bubble. Nonetheless, there are many reasons to think that there is only a low risk that the MPC will need to raise rates to deal with the housing market before conditions in the overall economy warrant such a move.
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