{"id":32670,"date":"2016-03-10T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32670"},"modified":"2016-03-10T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:50:44","slug":"32670","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/10\/32670\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all very well taking house price inflation into account but has anyone considered the consequences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/440c5ede-e5fa-11e5-a09b-1f8b0d268c39\" target=\"_blank\">FT has noted:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UK\u2019s top statistician has said the nation should focus its attention on a little-used\u00a0measure of inflation that includes housing costs, instead of overwhelmingly concentrating on CPI and RPI.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the UK Statistics Authority, John Pullinger, national statistician and head of the Office for National Statistics, promised to pump resources into improving the CPIH measure, which takes account of owner-occupied housing costs such as mortgages and insurance.<\/p>\n<p>It would become \u201cfocal point of ONS commentary in due course\u201d, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three points. First, does the Bank of England agree for inflation targeting purposes?<\/p>\n<p>Second, is this a precursor to falling house prices, which many expect (although which dopes not seem to be happening in the South East a yet)?<\/p>\n<p>Third, if this measure becomes negative for reason of falling house prices what will the implication be? Pensioners are protected by the triple lock for now. But what of everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>Much as I see the relevance of taking house prices into consideration I also see enormous problems when many have little control over changing their costs, barring moving, which in itself is enormously expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone thought the policy implications of this through?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has noted: The UK\u2019s top statistician has said the nation should focus its attention on a little-used\u00a0measure of inflation that includes housing costs,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/10\/32670\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}