Does an 18 year house price cycle predict a rise? (Podcast cut)

Nov 21, 2018, 09:26 AM

House prices move in an 18 year cycle. That is the theory of Fred Harrison, who used his cycle to forecast the 2008 slump after the financial crisis. 

If his theory holds, the housing market will have a short wobble this year and next, followed by a final sharp rise in prices to 2025.

Does that stand up to scrutiny? Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost discuss the 28 year property cycle on this excerpt from the This is Money podcast.