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A missing trillion? Is the total value of UK property understated?

by Gavriel Merkado | Mar 14, 2024 | Residential

The Statistics We’re likely all familiar with two headline statistics which come out each year. The first is the average price paid of a residential property in the UK, the second is the total value of all properties in the UK. The former is normally released by the...

Location, gentrification, population

by Ben Keating | Jun 25, 2020 | Residential Investor

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 21ST AUGUST 2017 As I touched upon in my last article, long term out-performance is the principal aim for a residential investor in our era of lower returns. Residential investment is a completely different mindset from choosing your own...

What’s in the residential investment crystal ball?

by Ben Keating | Jan 2, 2018 | Residential Investor

The approach of a new year is always the time when people start to gaze into their crystal balls, highlighting future trends for the year ahead. I have decided to cast the net a considerable bit further and see what trends we should look out for in the next few...

Putting a price on place

by Zoe Bignell | Oct 24, 2017 | The Guest Essay

Placemaking has long been the buzzword of the real estate world, but aside from the anecdotal benefits it has often been hard to measure the tangible advantages, that is, until now. Looking at 11 global placemaking initiatives in the UK, Australia, USA, Italy,...

Isn’t it time residential agents fought back?

by Andrew Baum | Oct 11, 2017 | The Professor

According to Savills, 2016 and the World Bank, the global real estate market is worth $217tr, 75% of which is residential property. Annual real estate trading has averaged $683bn annually since 2007 and reached $900bn in 2015. This represents turnover of around 0.3-4%...