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From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean

by Veronica Edmunds-Brown | May 11, 2022

How the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years. It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through...

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What a £350,000 average house price means for first-time buyers in Great Britain

by Colin Jones | Apr 25, 2022

The average house price in Great Britain has risen above £350,000 for the first time, according to property website Rightmove. From 2021 to 2022, house prices in all regions and...

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Have I got mews for you!

by John Myers | Feb 28, 2022

A plan to get houses built and please the public Britain needs more homes. This is such a commonplace that I have doubtless started articles with that four-word sentence before....

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Housing permits remained hot in January

by Robert Hughes | Feb 22, 2022

But mortgage rates also continued to rise. Total housing starts fell to a 1.638m annual rate in January from a 1.708m pace in December, a 4.1% decrease. From a year ago, total...

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Data-driven analysis facilitates investment

by Samantha Kempe | Feb 10, 2022

New tech can speed up Europe’s single-family rental sector. As we end the last quarter of 2021, a second volatile year due to the pandemic, institutional investment in Europe’s...

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The good old days?

by Charlie Ellingworth | Jan 11, 2022

Originally published November 2021. It’s not often that I agree with Donald Trump, but on one thing he is surely right; the UK's new American Embassy in Nine Elms was a “lousy...

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What air quality does to house prices and rents

by Chyi Lin Lee and Jianing Wang | Dec 8, 2021

Our recent study, which is published by Energy Policy, shows that an improvement in air quality, an environmental amenity, will not only enhance the health and wellbeing of...

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New single-family home sales rose in September as prices continue to surge

by Robert Hughes | Nov 11, 2021

Sales of new single-family homes posted a strong gain in September, increasing 14.0% to 800,000 at a seasonally adjusted annual rate from a 702,000 pace in August. Despite the...

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Existing-home sales rose and inventory fell in September

by Robert Hughes | Oct 27, 2021

Sales of existing homes jumped 7.0% in September, to a 6.29 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are still down 2.3% from a year ago. Sales in the market for existing...