Questions tagged [property]

Anecdotally, the story often goes like this: A land owner leases his commercial retail space at an expensive price. The place stays vacant for months or years at a time. Eventually someone decides to lease the place. The rents are very expensive and…

I am looking at the data here (for 2015). There are data for 489 cities from around the world, of which 82 are in the US. Using the measure "Price To Rent Ratio Outside Of City Centre", 69 of the 82 US cities are in the bottom 125 of all cities…

As to the idea that a free market is good because it is dynamic and flexible and therefore if citizens altogether feel that something is needed in society, a service of any kind to deal with the changing conditions of the world, then people are less…

If property prices raise too quickly, it can price people out of the market, cause mortgage stress and financial hardship and create a property bubble. If property prices fall too quickly, it can be devastating to the economy as property investors…