Have UK house prices reached fever pitch?
When doctors go to dinner parties they are routinely subjected to peoples near-death experiences and ailments; so much so, in fact, that many keep shtoom about what they do for a living. Over the past year I have been able to empathise. Along with the weather and football, house prices are a national obsession, and since the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, poured petrol on the flames of the recovering property market with the stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland last July (followed by similar tax cuts in Wales and Scotland), its an obsession that has reached fever pitch. And as with the weather and football there is no shortage of armchair experts. In my role as the papers property market expert I have written