If you happen to learn my piece final week concerning the newest session on bettering the house shopping for course of you’ll bear in mind there was an analogous train courting again to 1998, when the so-called Sellers Pack was being thought-about by authorities.
So that you would possibly assume that the long-winded dialogue and debate with reference to the ills of residential property gross sales has been happening for concerning the final 27 years or so – with no passable conclusion so far.
However you’d be out by a number of a long time…
Right here is an extract from the pages of Nation Life Journal dated April fifth 1962 – and also you’ll be fairly conversant in the whole lot it says.
If ever there was proof that there’s nothing new beneath the solar, this have to be it!
The elephants within the room that would trample the Housing Minister’s ambition
The extract is reproduced by form permission of Nation Life Journal.
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