House prices effectively unchanged

House buyers today are on average spending the same proportion of their income on buying a new home as they did in 1985, according to the government’s planning think tank RPB. In Amsterdam, however, house prices have risen so sharply that first-time buyers find it impossible to get a foot on the housing ladder, the RPB says.

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