Economics

"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"

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…

The wait-and-see approach is spreading beyond buyers and sellers...

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…

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…

Today's interest rate cut by the Bank of England isn't the big economic solution we need, argues the University of Cambridge's Michael Kitson...

In a universally-expected move, the Bank of England has halved the Base Rate to an historic low of just 0.25% and renewed some quantitative easing. The BoE's interest rate had been at an already low 0.

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...

The housing market across the UK "will slow but not plummet" over the next 18 months, predicts the Centre for Economics & Business Research, but London is in for a more harsh adjustment next year;

There rise of renting at the expense of home ownership in London is pretty well documented, but a new report indicates that it's not just a problem for the capital...

'Strong case' for analysts using algorithms more commonly used by dating websites to look at trends and sort through the big data