In September, the ECB raised its key interest rates for a 10th consecutive time, taking the deposit rate to a record high of 4.00% from a historic low of minus 0.50% in just over a year, but economists believe that this was the last increase in 2023.
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We have always been told that success in the real estate world is down to "location, location, location". Yet for students aspiring to join the profession a more important mantra...
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Property Valuation: the Importance of being Earnest
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III I know that the quote above is semantically...
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Stamp duty, mobility and the housing crisis
How replacing stamp duty with better-designed local taxes could alleviate the crisis of housing availability.
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Isn’t it time residential agents fought back?
The rise of online estate agency alternatives – and where they will go next.
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The History Man: an introduction
Our columnist Duncan Needham, Director of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge, looks back on his career from trading derivatives to academia.
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Proptech: the future of real estate?
2017 seems to mark a turning point. Proptech has been building such mass and momentum that it will change the world. Will we soon be able to buy a house with the click of a...