Sep 2: Housing package 'unlikely to work'

Name: Sep 2: Housing package 'unlikely to work'
Uploaded: 2008-09-02T11:13:09.000Z
Duration: PTNaNMNaNS
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Chris Giles on the UK government's announcement

Gordon Brown has unveiled a series of measures to revive the British housing market, including extending stamp duty relief to properties worth up to Â£175,000 (from Â£125,000). But Chris Giles, economics editor, is unconvinced that the plans will work. The government's hopes that this package of measures might lift the mood in the UK