MT Week - House price boom, contactless payment and crypto on PayPal

A handful of shorter stories this week for the Bank Holiday...

What caused the UK’s house price boom?

The Resolution Foundation (RF) published their latest Housing Outlook report last weekend and, among other things, said that the stamp duty holiday wasn’t the main cause of the house price boom in the UK.

If it was the main trigger, according to RF’s premise, we would have seen higher activity at the £500,000 mark, t…