Study Group: Residential Real Estate Experts (United Kingdom)(?)

Kier is one of the major housing contractors in the UK and a significant “second division” house builder.  They have decided to exit house building and concentrate solely on building for housing associations (the main providers of affordable/social housing in the UK).    In...

Lowest Housing starts for Decades. Increasing redundancies. Improving Rental Figures. Potential Housing crisis as shortages of homes grow.

Whilst there is no doubt that there will be significant write downs on some sites in most house-builders’ land banks, the nature of the land deals for many of the sites in those land banks means that much of the pain will be felt by the original vendors of the sites rather than the house-builders t...

The opening up of timeshare by Emaar is very interesting for the following reasons:- Emaar are highly respected as probably the best developer in Dubai and are owned by the Rulers family. This is evidenced by the fact that until recently it was very difficult to obtain finance on other...

First time buyer activity is the traditional prop for the market:  despite continued high levels of household formation (225k per annum, compared with build rates of 160-180k per annum), increasing numbers of newly forming households are choosing to rent rather than buy. In parallel, buy to let...