Economics
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...
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...