The rise of the landlord influencer
Welcome to #PropertyTok: where landlords are making money on viral posts as well as rental homes.
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Reshaping the Big Apple: Real estate in New York post-pandemic
It is a lot to ask of a city for it to shut down to apocalyptic levels and then reopen for a new dawn. But if one city is resilient, it is NYC, a city that is seeming a surprising uptick in real estate.
The rebound of San Francisco: What will normal look like for city-lovers post-Covid-19?
Life has changed in more ways than one in the Bay Area due to the Covid pandemic, but what effect will working from home have on the housing market, and just what will the new normal look like in San Francisco when the pandemic is officially over?
How does new construction affect nearby housing prices?
New research addresses a question that's incredibly difficult to answer and may hold clues to solving the affordable-housing puzzle.
The downsides of being a tech hub: Housing disruption and inequality
San Francisco, Seattle and Dublin show what happens when a city becomes a global hotspot for tech jobs without planning to accommodate growth and change.
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A US-wide eviction ban could have prevented thousands of Covid deaths
About 1.2 million infections and 164,000 deaths could have been averted in 2020 if the federal government had stopped evictions and utility shut-offs, according to Duke University estimates.
Red Vienna: How Austria’s capital earned its place in housing history
Between the two world wars, Vienna undertook one of the most ambitious public housing programmes ever. That effort is still credited with maintaining affordability a century later.
State and local protections helped the US avert the worst-case evictions crisis this year
Recent analysis from the Eviction Lab finds that moratoriums significantly reduced the rate of expulsion filings in US cities, but many of those protections are set to expire soon.
French cities aim to make housing more secure in the midst of the pandemic
France is experimenting with rent controls to better protect inhabitants and make its housing markets more sustainable.
Berliners want to expropriate 250,000 homes. Here’s what stands in their way.
A group of housing advocates are hoping a new referendum will transfer ownership of a quarter of a million apartments to the people.
The most and least housing-secure cities in England and Wales
City Monitor's 2020 Housing Security Index finds that in the UK, urban areas with dwindling social-housing stock and increasing home cost-to-income ratios face the biggest risks from Covid-19.
Housing Security Index 2020: England and Wales
Explore local-authority data related to UK housing security in our interactive index.
Why do wealthy cities have a housing shortage?
Economies and populations have concentrated in a handful of cities, while homes have gotten more expensive and harder to build. A growing movement is calling for change.
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