New report – Housing: Taming the Elephant in the Economy
A new report recommends immediate institutional reform to stabilise Australia’s dysfunctional housing market.
Housing – New Realpolitik Needs a New Real Economics
The pressured housing markets of Sydney and Melbourne pose major challenges, from problems for aspiring homebuyers and lower-income populations to lesser-noticed impacts on urban productivity.
Making Better Economic Cases for Housing Policies
A report examining the relationship between pressured housing markets in Sydney and economic growth.
Housing market policies for Canada: Short term measures and system challenges
This paper examines recent Canadian policy shifts to cope with, and remove, house price pressures in major metropolitan areas, Vancouver and Toronto.
Expert-led seminar to examine private rented sector
Expert-led seminar on the private rented sector.
Journalism by hype: the anatomy of a house price crisis story
Ken Gibb examines a media story on the housing market, to scrutinise the facts of the story and the quality of analyis.
The return of the rentier?
Piece reflecting on the peak in home ownership, now at a 25 year low, and how has been redistributed into the quickly growing buy-to-let rental market .
Helping the SME builder through Help to Buy
Piece on the debates around the need to shift the preponderance of new housing supply from the large volume house builders towards small and medium-sized builders.
Rental reforms chime with tenants as house prices surge
Housing tenure has little to do with economic and social policy performance. So is the UK set to continue its recent shift from home ownership to rental?
Budget 2014: will Osborne cool or fuel the housing market?
This year’s budget is a critical milestone on the road to the European elections, the Scottish Referendum and primarily next year’s general election. So what should George Osborne do?