Household Wealth Grows Five Fold in 50 years
Sunday, May 16, 2010 20:03Household wealth in Britain has risen five-fold in the past 50 years, according to Halifax. The assets of the household property, savings and investment has reach 6.3 trillion at the end of last year. There is an average value per household of £ 237,000, three times the £ 73,000 in 1959.
The difference between household wealth and the value per household has been on the rise in the number of households at that time. There were 16.7 million private addresses 50 years ago, compared with 26.6 million last year. Of these, 22.1 million – in private hands. Fifty years ago the figure was 12.1 million.
At its peak in 1981, the social sector – for example, the share housing – for 33% of households. Property prices have risen faster than earnings for the period. Average earnings rose by 2% annually, with house price inflation 2.7% on average. As a result, housing wealth accounts for more than a third of the assets, compared with just over one fifth in 1959. The 1980s saw the most significant change in values, if people plant more than doubled the collective.
Despite the steep rise in value since 1959, households were less well off at the end of 2009, when they were in 2007. Collective wealth fell by 15% between 2007 and 2008 because of falls in the housing and share markets, despite some recovery from last year, it is still 8% below the peak reached in 2007.
Nitesh Patel, economist at Halifax, said government policies had significantly to the change: “The last half century has seen a dramatic increase in wealth for British households. “In addition to the overall economic prosperity, government measures such as legislation on the acquisition and privatization of nationalized industries, coupled with the liberalization of financial markets, the impetus for increased household wealth in the two forms of housing and financial assets provided.
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