Economics

It’s not just the imbalance between supply and demand that's pushing pricing upwards, it’s also the cost of funding developments, says Charles Curran

What if a lack of houses is not the real problem, asks the FT's Jonathan Eley in an in-depth feature.

The UK’s "obsession with housing wealth could be making the country poorer", argues an economic think tank

Will the owner of a £17m mansion in Notting Hill manage to pull off the UK's first Bitcoin-only property deal? We'll have to wait and see on that one, but as Janet Armstrong-Fox explains, we can bank o…

"Momentum in the market is likely to remain subdued in the near term", say residential property surveyors

Relatively few Americans or Europeans were caught up in the Panama palava, but this latest mega-leak is a different story...

"No surprise" from the prime resi sector as the Monetary Policy Committee votes 7-2 to increase the base rate from 0.25% to 0.5%

JLL forecasts price growth of 2.5% pa for the next five years as UK transitions into 'new paradigm'; PCL to be weakest performing region in 2018...

Johan Rewilak, an empirical economist and lecturer at Aston University, explores the reasoning behind the Bank of England's anticipated decision to raise interest rates for the first time in a decade..

The UK's property tax system is "strange and inconsistent", according to The Adam Smith Institute

European billionaires are hunkering down; total wealth increased by 5% in 2016, while the number of billionaires in Europe increased by just three to 342.

2,494 was the lowest number recorded in a third quarter since 1992