Economics
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...
A 1% interest rate rise would cost mortgage-holders £10bn
A 1% rise 'would add £10bn to the UK's mortgage bill', says Savills, which works out at around £930 per year per mortgaged household...
Two London boroughs generating over three-quarters of ATED receipts
£126m of last year's £175m total came from Westminster and RBKC...
Westminster’s wealthiest residents get behind ‘voluntary contribution’ initiative
Over half of owners with properties worth over £10m show support for "imaginative" council tax proposals...
Rise of the ‘New Aristocracy’: Profiling the world’s younger HNW home-buyers
There's a new breed of affluent home-buyer, declares Luxury Portfolio after looking at some demographics and research findings on the world's super-rich.
There’s been a ‘considerable increase’ in middle-aged renters over the last ten years
The latest English Housing Survey gives a statistical overview of how the country lives...
How will Brexit affect the UK estate agency industry?
Not much, say civil servants, except in prime London...
Three things that will shape the economy in 2018
A timely macro primer from Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
How shifting demographics could affect the London property market
Lower net migration and population growth post-Brexit could have several impacts on demand, says Grosvenor
Why property market gridlock could jam up the whole economy
Higher SDLT charges have resulted in vendors now outnumbering buyers by 10-1 in some parts, says Trevor Abrahmsohn, and the wider effects on the UK economy are becoming evident...
Currency counts as international buyers make over half of all PCL purchases
Exchange rates continue to play a major role in driving interest in the capital's most expensive markets, says Hamptons...