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Our experts on residential property investment and development share their thoughts on what’s happening in the sector
Bryan Caplan does not write to be popular. He writes not for causes he thinks are likely to win but for causes that deserve to win. I’ve reviewed almost all of his books: The Myth of the Rational Voter (2007), Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (2011), The Case Against Education (2018), Open...
Originally published March 2022. Write anything about housing and you’ll usually be hit with a classic non-gotcha: "What about empty homes?". What about those supposed millions...
How the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years. It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through...
The average house price in Great Britain has risen above £350,000 for the first time, according to property website Rightmove. From 2021 to 2022, house prices in all regions and...
A plan to get houses built and please the public Britain needs more homes. This is such a commonplace that I have doubtless started articles with that four-word sentence before....
But mortgage rates also continued to rise. Total housing starts fell to a 1.638m annual rate in January from a 1.708m pace in December, a 4.1% decrease. From a year ago, total...
New tech can speed up Europe’s single-family rental sector. As we end the last quarter of 2021, a second volatile year due to the pandemic, institutional investment in Europe’s...
Originally published November 2021. It’s not often that I agree with Donald Trump, but on one thing he is surely right; the UK's new American Embassy in Nine Elms was a “lousy...
Our recent study, which is published by Energy Policy, shows that an improvement in air quality, an environmental amenity, will not only enhance the health and wellbeing of...
Sales of new single-family homes posted a strong gain in September, increasing 14.0% to 800,000 at a seasonally adjusted annual rate from a 702,000 pace in August. Despite the...