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How significant are City jobs for London's housing market?

Popular perception dictates that City jobs are a crucial driver of London’s housing market. Yet there have been at least two previous occasions when significant City redundancies did not trigger house price falls. That said, there are good reasons to believe that 2012 will not be an exception to the general rule.

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