Economics
Abrahmsohn on 2018: Property, politics & more
Trevor Abrahmsohn has some early predictions on what next year might hold for the property market and life in general...
Over half of London’s resi construction workers were born overseas
A new survey by the HBF reveals just how essential EU workers are to the UK’s housebuilding sector…
London has over 6,000 UHNW second home owners
New York leads the world in terms of overall UHNW presence, but the UK capital has a far higher proportion of mega-wealthy 'second homers'...
Tony Blair’s ‘5 radical proposals’ to fix a housing crisis
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has published a "a progressive vision" for the UK's housing policy, pitching for "a radical departure for the status quo"
The Future of Real Estate: The seven global cities with the best economic prospects for the next decade
Savills takes an holistic view of global real estate sector in its new flagship report, looking at long-term trends and (very) macro influences that affect resi, commercial and investment markets around…
The total value of the UK’s housing stock has topped £6 trillion for the first time
The grand total value of privately owned homes has risen by 48% since 2007; London and the South East accounts for more than half of the £1.94 trillion increase.
Government moots a revival of regional ‘Beeching lines’ in new rail strategy to boost housebuilding
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has outlined "a new vision for our railways", including a proposal to re-open some regional lines closed in the notorious "Beeching cuts" of the 1960s
Britain has the highest property taxes in the world – OECD
12.5% of UK tax revenues come from property levies; the OECD average across 35 developed countries is just 6%.
Budget 2017: Prime resi industry reactions
What the residential property industry thinks about abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers, the empty homes levy, housebuilding targets, & more
Digging deeper into the UK’s housing problem
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
Lex in depth: The false promise of a UK house building boom (FT)
What if a lack of houses is not the real problem, asks the FT's Jonathan Eley in an in-depth feature.
Relying on property instead of pensions could cost Britain £55bn over the next decade
The UK’s "obsession with housing wealth could be making the country poorer", argues an economic think tank