http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/why-low-rents-are-compatible-with-a-housing-shortage/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/why-low-rents-are-compatible-with-a-housing-shortage/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:02:00 +0000 Ben Chu http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26227 The long fall in rents after 1997, relative to house prices, can largely be accounted for by the secular fall in interest rates, says Tim Leunig.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/11/why-low-rents-are-compatible-with-a-housing-shortage/feed/ 54