Property

15th May 2018 Nickolai Hubble

What do you actually own?

Do you really own something if it’s controlled by the government? Property rights are a precondition for prosperity. The idea is that you own yourself, your property and the fruits of your labour. This basic concept is fairly new in…

7th May 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Which snowflake causes the avalanche?

If you think you’ll get a chance to relax this public holiday, you’re wrong. It’s all happening. Did you hear about the Swedish crisis? Or the one in Argentina? Perhaps that the Canadian and Australian housing bubble burst? Financial crises…

18th April 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The Second Coming of Sub-prime

Do you remember when sub-prime mortgages were a small problem in an obscure part of the US mortgage market? Next thing, all hell broke loose. Well today we investigate a similar scenario. At first, it appears to be a small…

12th March 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The problem with a property price slowdown

The UK’s property boom is sputtering and stuttering. You should be very worried about what happens next. House prices fell nationally in the last three months reported Halifax. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) house price index hit zero…

15th February 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Stocks are down. Property is next.

Last year, Capital & Conflict sent you an inflation alert. Yes, ten months is a bit of an early warning. But there’s some vindication playing out at last. Inflation has gone from being persistently low to persistently high in the…

1st December 2017 Bill Bonner

Why Are the Homes of the Elite So Ugly?

BALTIMORE – Yesterday, we saw the soul of America. We drove by a house so imposing… so monstrously ugly… so laughably pretentious that we almost drove off the road staring at it. On a suburban lot, it was as though…

1st September 2017 Nickolai Hubble

The wrong girlfriend to buy a house in London

Soaring house prices are creating a generational gap. Mortgage lender Halifax is the latest one out with data on the topic. “If you are under 35, it’s likely there is little chance of you ever owning your own home,” summarised…

9th February 2017 Nick O'Connor

Is the housing market broken?

The UK housing market is “broken”. That’s according to communities secretary Sajid Javid. He was talking at the launch of a major government white paper on the housing market. According to some analysis the UK has built 2.5 million too…

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