

When 28-year-old artist Harrison Marshall moved back to London after a spell abroad, he couldn’t find anywhere to live within his price bracket. So in March 2023 he moved into a converted skip. He had parked the yellow container on a patch of land in Bermondsey...
House in a skip: even tiny homes can’t address the privilege and insecurity of the housing market

UK Government gets personal with RICS
“The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill” is making its way through the legislative process and is now in the House of Lords. As one would hope from one’s government, there is a lot of good stuff in there. There is, however, hidden in its bowels, something...
UK Government gets personal with RICS

Too Many Lack the Security of a Good Home
One of the founding fathers of liberalism, Locke, in his Treatise of Government, writes that what renders the appropriation of property just is that one does not worsen the situation of others by doing so. He uses the example of water; it is not unjust to appropriate...
Too Many Lack the Security of a Good Home

A faint glimmer of hope for German residential construction?
Prof. Dr. Tobias Just (FRICS) and Dr. Marian Dietzel Given the current demand for housing, the number of residential completions in Germany is too low: Since the last census in 2011, the number of inhabitants in Germany has risen by around four million, while about...
A faint glimmer of hope for German residential construction?

The Help to Buy Bubble May Be About to Burst
I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who thought house prices were cheap. For example, a 30-year-old first-time buyer will need a 5% deposit at the very least. The average UK house price (according to Nationwide) reached £273,000 in 2022, so even a measly...
The Help to Buy Bubble May Be About to Burst