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Skills shortage will force house prices up

The price of new homes will keep going up due to a shortage of skilled construction labourers, the chief executive of housebuilder Vistry has warned.

George Fitzgerald said that he was struggling to find enough bricklayers and plasterers.

As a result he predicted that house prices were “only going to go one way, because we are just not going to be able to meet demand”.

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