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ECONOMICS, POLICY & ANALYSIS
Chart Failure? The secrets of a good property index
There are a lot of property statistics and indices to choose from, but are any of
them actually reliable indicators of market performance? Parthenia’s James
Wyatt charts the ups and downs of the UK’s most-used house price indices.
‘Use the current economic sunshine’ before the next global slump
The UK is on track to be hit by another downturn in real estate markets in
2018, just after the US, claims Grosvenor Group’s Graham Parry.
Seven solutions to the housing supply conundrum
Delivery of more housing is topping many agendas as May’s electioneering gathers
pace. But ‘there is a problem,’ points out JLL, in that many of the proposed ‘solutions’
to the housing shortage are, taken in isolation,‘merely a brick in the wall’.
The main risks to the UK’s residential property market
Knight Frank rates eight of the most scary risks to property price growth and
performance over the next five years.
Eurozone quantitative easing and the UK property market
The European Central Bank’s decision to make some more money could swing
both ways for Britain’s residential property market, says Chestertons’ Nick Barnes.
A history of the mansion tax in quotes
A brisk trot – in the words of the key players – through how the idea of a mansion
tax progressed from Lib Dem vision to hard Labour policy over the last five years.
HERITAGE
Restoration Man: On the value of project managers in historic
renovations
Andrew Shirley talks to Knight Frank’s James Carter-Brown about the value of
a good project manager and the mechanics of rural project management.
LETTINGS
Scare B&B: Just how risky are short-term lets?
With scare stories of all-night parties and pop-up hotels doing the rounds, what
are the risks HNW clients should be made aware of, asks Boodle Hatfield’s
Kevin Fidler.
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