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Interest rates shake foundations

by Alexandre P. Amper and Guillaume Savreux | Nov 20, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

The Real Estate market has been on a tumultuous journey over recent decades. The 2007–2008 financial crisis left an indelible mark on the sector, causing property values to plummet and lending conditions to tighten. However, the market has rebounded from the depths of...

The King’s Speech

by Angus Fanshawe | Nov 13, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

Proposed Leasehold & Freehold Bill Valuation proposals – a viewpoint. Whenever a Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers the annual budget, it is often best to avoid the excitement of the day and look at the detail the following morning when the dust has...

Rent controls have failed everywhere – and Edinburgh is no different

by Bartek Staniszewski | Nov 13, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

There is a saying about economists – that if you put ten of them in a room, you will get 11 opinions. Consensus amongst economists is reserved only for the most obvious, well-evidenced truisms. Yet, in a survey of 41 American professors of economics, only...

Why converting office space into flats won’t solve the housing crisis

by Robert Richardson | Nov 13, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

The UK government is proposing to further relax planning rules as part of its long-term plan for housing. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities aims to extend what are known as “permitted development rights” (PDR) in England. This would widen a...

Wonks have been warning about the housing crisis for decades – so why has nothing been done?

by Kristian Niemietz | Nov 6, 2023 | The Analyst, zNewsletter

Last month, the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile, tweeted about a CPS publication from 1990 which was far ahead of its time: NIMBYism – The Disease And The Cure by Richard Ehrman. Although written in the early stages of (what we now...

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