Housing starts are growing rapidly on the back of an improving economy and the Help to Buy scheme. But with builders already facing material and labour shortages, and the demand for new homes partly dependent on a temporary Government subsidy, we doubt such rapid growth will be maintained. It will be close to the end of the decade before housebuilding is back to pre-crisis levels.
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