Economics
Why Russia’s ‘dirty money’ is not leaving London any time soon
What is missing in the Moscow’s Gold report is a broader understanding of why Russian (and non-Russian money for that matter) flows into London and the UK in the first place...
Bloomberg sets out to chart the end of London’s long housing boom
A new series of articles aims to track "London's housing market as it runs out of steam after almost a decade of growth"
One in six Londoners ‘expect to leave the capital within the foreseeable future’
London 'is set to lose significant portions of its most economically productive demographic', warns Grant Thornton LLP
Westminster’s voluntary taxation experiment falls flat
Three months after council launches innovative 'community contribution' scheme, new figures reveal that only 2% of high-end homeowners have actually put their hands in their pockets...
It is time to hand the housing crisis over to the professionals
The UK's property industry has the depth of talent to turn decades of underinvestment and policy neglect around, but only if given the power to do so, says Alexander Lewis...
The number of real estate companies in ‘significant financial distress’ has jumped by 46% in the last year
41,624 property business are struggling, warns a top corporate recovery firm, as the UK's real estate sector is hit particularly hard by economic headwinds
The total value of the UK’s housing stock has reached a high of £7.14 trillion; here are nine charts to put that in context
Savills tots up and presents the total residential property wealth of the nation in infographic form, charting price inflation, house-building numbers, regional variances and more...
Timeline: Price movements in the world’s prime resi markets since the GFC
Knight Frank tracks prime property price movements in key global cities since the Global Financial Crisis, a decade ago.
Spring Statement 2018: Prime property industry reactions
Chancellor reiterates a "commitment to tackle the challenges in our housing market"
Watch: Niall Ferguson discusses ‘the next recession’
Historian Niall Ferguson talks to Knight Frank about the issues facing the world and its wealth creators
The Wealth Report 2018: Niall Ferguson on Brexit, China and the backlash against the backlash
One of the world’s most influential and controversial historians talks exclusively to The Wealth Report’s editor Andrew Shirley about the big issues facing the world and its wealth creators...
The world needs to build more than two billion new homes over the next 80 years
The global population is rising by 45 million each year. Edinburgh Napier University's Sean Smith examines what needs to happen for housing construction to keep pace with escalating demand...