The Wage Slaves Escape Manual

Property ownership: a safe bet or housing roulette?

It's one of the great tragedies of the last decade that a very simple human need - to have a roof over your head and a safe place to live - has become such a game of housing roulette.

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Why it is better to rent a house than to buy

Housing market bulls will point to the great gains made in house prices over the past five years. That's great if you already had a home, and you bought in the right area. But lots of college leavers can't afford a bedsite, never mind a decent flat, and you could have replicated that kind of capital increase if you had picked the right shares on the stock market.

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