Category: United Kingdom

You think it’s bad *here*?

19 August, 2008 (10:09) | Finance markets, Housing, Markets, US News, United Kingdom | No comments

 
As we watch the US housing and capital markets struggle to find their equilibrium, there’s no question we are experiencing a worldwide phenomenon – and even allowing for the parochial lenses through which Americans receive news of other people’s markets, I think it’s clear that however much disturbance we are facing in the US markets, […]

Don’t call it Petit Hameau

14 May, 2008 (09:08) | Markets, Theory, United Kingdom, Urbanization | No comments

Although affordable housing program design is hard, the easiest task is building new housing.  Just throw money, and up pop new homes. 
 
Even if they are caprices. 
 

 
Such, I conclude, will be the practical consequences of the Prince of Wales’s second venture into town creation, Knockroon, a Highland fling as it were, described in a […]

Wrong to buy

23 November, 2007 (10:21) | Global news, Innovations, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Tenure, United Kingdom | No comments

If you had a nifty innovation that had turned 500,000 public housing renters into homeowners, wouldn’t you trumpet it? 
 

 
Apparently, not if you were Scottish, or at least that’s what one would infer from a proposed policy change in the UK affordable housing ecosystem that is apparently emanating from Edinburgh, as reported in This is […]