Valuation Viewpoint: A debt deflationary vortex?
The coronavirus has exposed an underlying weakness within the world economy, and it will be several weeks before we find out the impact on the market, writes James Wyatt…
Why a ‘U-shaped’ recovery is more likely than a post-lockdown boom
Charlie Ellingworth and the Property Vision team take a measured look at what the Covid-19 recovery could look like for the UK’s economy and real estate sector.
Beauchamp MD joins BoE’s advisory panel
Mayfair-based boutique agency to provide regular updates on the UK resi market as part of the bank’s Decision Maker Panel, set up in 2016 to help shape post-Brexit economic policy
Significant wealth tax hikes ‘should now be very firmly on the UK policy agenda’
“Low-hanging” wealth & property taxes could rise to cover Covid-19 costs, suggests a political economist Professor Richard Murphy.
Knight Frank’s five-point plan to reignite the housing market after Covid-19
A Stamp Duty holiday is just one of the “critical” government-led measures needed to “kick-start” the property market – and so stimulate the whole economy – after the Coronavirus lockdown, says the Knight Frank team.
Three Phases: How prime London’s property market will emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown
The ongoing Coronavirus lockdown will be followed by a “mini-boom” in prime London’s property market, predicts super-prime specialist estate agency Beauchamp. But we’ll have to wade through some painful months before we get there.
UK house prices likely to drop 13% this year as incomes tumble, predict economists
A looming “shortfall in incomes has a tremendous potential to disrupt the UK’s housing markets”, warns the Centre for Economics & Business Research.
Property transactions to plummet by 38% this year, predicts Knight Frank, but PCL prices are set to surge in 2021
Over half-a-million property sales will be “lost” due to the Coronavirus lockdown, predicts Knight Frank, but prices are likely to “recover sharply” once restrictions are lifted.
The view from Knightsbridge: On Covid-19 and its impact on the PCL housing market
No one knows when some sort of new normality will return, writes Patrick Alvarado, but those firms that manage to see out the crisis may end up stronger as a result…
Treasury could see a £5bn Stamp Duty hit as property sales slump
“Transactions will bear the brunt” of the Coronvirus property slump, says Savills – but the firm doesn’t think the pandemic will have a long-term effect on house prices.
Exchange Great: Surveying the currency play across eight prime resi property markets
Knight Frank explains why prime buyers are paying close attention to currency shifts
Infography: Comparing ‘Black Swan’ crisis events
The Covid-19 outbreak is being called a “Black Swan” event – something rare and unexpected that has severe consequences for investors. Here’s an infographic that puts the current crisis in context with other Black Swans…