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The paper explores the relationship between house price growth, income levels, investor activity and the effects on entrants to the housing market. It concentrates on the area of first time buyers to the market and the issues of affordability which are now becoming increasingly apparent in...

Recent policy debate in Scotland has focused on the vexed question of fiscal autonomy (Heald and McLeod, 2002). One important, though under-researched, dimension of the debate concerns the expenditure and policy design relationships between devolved policy responsibilities in areas such as...

This paper the development of a model simulating an urban housing system dominated by non-market social housing, primarily to forecast demand for social housing under different scenarios. The urban system concerned is the city of Glasgow and its suburbs, a post-industrial city in West Central...

Most empirical analysis of property development treats the sub-components of the construction industry as independent of each other. For example, models of housing construction typically do not consider any possible relationship with industrial or commercial construction. New building and repair...

Social housing in the UK is under increasing pressure to reform its archaic pricing systems that provide tenants with below market rents but in an incoherent and often ad hoc and unsystematic manner. English social housing is now well into a long term experiment to provide both convergence and a...

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Social housing policy in the UK mirrors wider processes associated with shifts in broad welfare regimes. Social housing has moved from dominance by council housing provision to the funding of new investment through voluntary sector housing associations to a greater focus on the regulation and...

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