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Our experts on residential property investment and development share their thoughts on what’s happening in the sector
Extending a flat lease or buying the freehold - where we are now (or rather - where we aren’t). It was all over – or that’s what we thought when the Prime Minister announced the election date. The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill was progressing through the House of Lords with strong arguments...
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...
Sales of existing homes jumped 7.0% in September, to a 6.29 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are still down 2.3% from a year ago. Sales in the market for existing...
Total housing starts fell to a 1.555 million annual rate in September from a 1.580 million pace in August, a 1.6% decrease. From a year ago, total starts are up 7.4%. Total...
Originally published November 2020. I don’t like repeating a story that brings any disrespect to the Beatles, especially one so clearly unlikely as the exchange attributed to...
Originally published January 2021. With the government under pressure to tackle the UK homes shortage, social housing offers yield opportunities to high-net-worth investors. As a...
In a housing crisis, that just doesn’t add up. When I first moved to New Zealand – even after living in some of the highest-priced US property markets – I was taken aback by...