The housing boom, central banks and the inflation conundrum – MENAFN.COM

  • Date: 23-Apr-2021
  • Source: MENAFN
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Gulf
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The housing boom, central banks and the inflation conundrum – MENAFN.COM

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) A multi-year boom in global house prices which even a pandemic has failed to halt is forcing central banks around the world to confront a knotty question what, if anything, should they be doing about it?

The surge in property values from Australia to Sweden is often viewed benignly by governments as