Future cities: new challenges mean we need to reimagine how urban landscapes could look
Dec 17, 2020 11:11 am UTC| Real Estate Science
Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat...
Real estate prices are reaching record highs but that doesn't mean it's the only time to sell
Dec 17, 2020 11:08 am UTC| Real Estate Economy
The real estate sector has unexpectedly thrived during the pandemic. In the last few months, property prices have broken one record after another, climbing to unprecedented heights. In times of recession, when...
Public housing needs radical reform: here's how
Dec 06, 2020 10:00 am UTC| Real Estate Economy
Britains housing system is well and truly broken. House-builders sit on land already granted planning permission and drip-feed the market to keep supply low and prices high. Despite the coronavirus crisis, house prices...
South Korean investments in US real estate reach 8.6% of total
Nov 20, 2020 23:05 pm UTC| Investing Real Estate
South Koreans made a $1.56 billion investment in the US commercial real estate market in the first three quarters of this year, accounting for 8.6 percent of the total, according to statistics by commercial real estate...
Prioritising home ownership hurts everyone – owners as well as renters
Nov 08, 2020 11:15 am UTC| Real Estate
The quest to own a home has become a mainstay in UK society. Successive governments of all stripes have prioritised home ownership over other forms of tenure. In August 2020, following Boris Johnsons mantra earlier in...
$1 billion per year (or less) could halve rental housing stress
Nov 02, 2020 09:14 am UTC| Real Estate
COVID has shown us whats possible when it comes to alleviating poverty. For six months JobSeeker payments were doubled and then maintained at a level 50% above normal. When the bonus finishes at year end it is likely...
Widening access to shared ownership is not enough to solve England's housing crisis
Oct 09, 2020 07:08 am UTC| Economy Real Estate
Housing inequalities have been laid bare by COVID-19, further exposing a housing crisis in England that is already severe. Unless some genuine steps are taken, it will only get worse for millions living in inadequate...
In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized