Economics
‘Comprehensive’ study reveals that London is the best city in the world
Management consultancy ranks London in first place for economic clout, ease of doing business, education, technology readiness, location & access
Why London won’t lose its crown as Europe’s financial capital
UK capital will remain Europe’s main financial centre argues the LSE's Simeon Djankov
Rise of the Super-Suburbs: PCL prices to drop 6% this year as ‘burbs grow 5%
Hamptons International delivers updated forecast
Central London’s ‘new-build crisis’: Over-supply and falling values are ‘a major concern’
Demand seems to be drying up for new-build apartments in central London as planning pipelines balloon, reports investment house London Central Portfolio, with a worsening case of over-supply - which the …
Building London: Mapping how development activity in the capital has changed since 1900
This is quite interesting
Singapore government mulls building HDB flats in prime areas to promote equality
Singapore's National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said the government is considering building public flats in prime areas, like the planned Greater Southern Waterfront, in order to make the city…
A ‘bumpy ride’ ahead as economic turbulence strikes property markets
The wait-and-see approach is spreading beyond buyers and sellers..
Shadows of Gentrification: Why we need to know who owns our cities
"The term 'gentrification' does not quite capture the massive changes that have been happening in a growing number of cities worldwide in the last few years"
We have seen ‘the most turbulent changes to the Prime Central London market since 1991’
A "notably quiet" Q2 in prime central London belies some significant property market movements over the last 18-or-so months, says JLL, with December 2014's stamp duty changes heralding a period of much…
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy on…
Carrington on Q2: When you are presented with figures such as these over a relatively short period, then something is wrong
LonRes Chairman reviews the London market in Q2
Three reasons why UK house prices have become detached from earnings
As we learned this week, home ownership is tumbling across the UK - the last Conservative regime has a lot to answer for, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...