1st Edition

The Housing Downturn Picking up the Pieces

By Graham Norwood Copyright 2009
138 Pages
by Estates Gazette

138 Pages
by Estates Gazette

The world’s housing markets have seen the sharpest slowdown in prices and transactions for over a generation – nowhere more so than in Britain. So what can the property industry learn from the experience? This book sets out the signals that were appearing from 2005 onwards as the foundations of the industry began to crack. Norwood asks: why were they missed? Why did so few people speak out... Read more
1. Introduction    2. How the Crash Happened   3. The Victims – Those Who Fell   4. How Did the Others Survive?   5. The Developers That Suffered   6. The Developers That Prospered   7. What Should Agents and Developers do in the Future?   8. Conclusion

Biography

Graham Norwood has been a journalist for over 20 years and writes on residential property for newspapers, magazines, websites and blogs in the UK and across the world.