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Our experts on residential property investment and development share their thoughts on what’s happening in the sector
So why are homebuilders so sad? In today’s dispatch: home prices hit an all time highstrangely, no one wants to build new homes, and homebuilders are saddiscounts everywhere, but not in the indexesthe indexes are a little hazy, and that’s ok Last week, you may have seen a headline like this: WSJ...
In the UK, legal cases resolving alleged neighbour nuisances are ten-a-penny. Some – about overhanging trees or leylandii hedges that block out the sun – reach the local press....
Originally published October 2022. An engaged response to a passing Tweet, ‘Why do we fetishise plain old buildings?’ As someone who has built a business sourcing, acquiring, and...
Sales of existing homes sank another 5.9% in October to a 4.43 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. That is the ninth consecutive monthly decline, leaving the selling pace at...
Originally published October 2022. After nine years of enticing first time buyers (FTBs) into – and consequently inflating the prices of – new build, help-to-buy (HTB) is finally...
Originally published October 2022. In the United States, zoning laws are overwhelmingly local concerns, though heavily influenced by federal pressures, like lending and highway...
The rise of remote property investment is one of the more notable by-products of the altered post-pandemic housing market. While this trend has the potential to radically adjust...
Why a fall isn’t certain and wouldn’t help first-time buyers much anyway. The UK remains a nation of homeowners, with two-thirds of all dwellings belonging to the people who live...
Why the housing market is collapsing – and the risks to the wider economy. China has been trimming interest rates recently – in contrast to other major economies – as...
Especially in a desert. The rally in Dubai luxury villas has been as swift as it has been spectacular since the autumn of 2020, with anecdotal evidence of 50 to 70% cumulative...