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A resi sceptic writes

by Duncan MacInnes | Nov 19, 2020

This article was originally published in March 2019. Over almost 30 years UK house price gains have outperformed the best of British businesses. What next? Index performance...

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Skipping town

by Charlie Ellingworth | Nov 2, 2020

A future with less need to commute is making country life more feasible, and rural estate agents’ phones are ringing off the hook. “At the beginning of the plague, when there was...

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UK residential market: how and why is money being allocated?

by Anna Harper | Oct 26, 2020

There’s one question above all that, in the real estate industry, we are constantly asked: ‘Is now a good time to put money into property?’ The consensus is, despite the...

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Housing value worldwide: what’s happening?

by Alfred Sadek | Oct 12, 2020

Considering that the present crisis is likely to burst inflated bubbles, it’s especially relevant to look at overvalued assets now. The first chart below compares the current...

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SDLT – what next for Rishi?

by Andrew Crossman | Sep 23, 2020

What will be the lasting impact of the stamp duty holiday announced in July by the UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak? The holiday has been great for the vast numbers of purchasers who...

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Multi-family housing becomes ‘core’ investment, led by Germany

by Charles Kingston | Sep 10, 2020

With yields averaging 3.35%, the asset category ‘multi-family housing’ is moving out of the ‘alternative’ sector and becoming ‘core’, according to property adviser Savills....

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German property foreclosure sales ‘set to rise by up to 20%’

by Charles Kingston | Aug 27, 2020

German financial analysts are forecasting an increase in property foreclosures of at least 20%, and loan defaults of up to €100bn as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic,...

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Chart of the month – Comparison of house prices to income and prices to rent across different countries

by Alfred Sadek | Aug 13, 2020

The last 12 years have seen a myriad of crises in various areas - international relations, climate, economies and, most recently, a global pandemic. Though the economic...

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Taxing the family home is the wrong way to repair Britain’s balance sheet

by Robert Colvile | Aug 6, 2020

What’s the solution to the great pandemic debt pile-up? Tax Britain’s housing wealth. According to James Kirkup, head of the Social Market Foundation think tank, writing in the...