Three things your clients may call you about this week …

Buying a house as a long-term investment? The long-term investment potential of bricks and mortar - in effect, house prices (never let it be said the more conservative-oriented nationals do not know their readers) - is a main focus of both the Telegraph and the Mail this weekend. According to this Telegraph article, for example, "despite radical increases in property tax and a stagnant housing market, more people than ever think property produces the best returns of any asset". The Telegraph goes on to use data from Old Mutual Wealth to illustrate things are by no means so clear-cut ye...