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Nathan Brooker writes about UK and international property markets for the FT Weekend.

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  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
    UK house prices
    Whatever happens, Brexit is bad news for young housebuyers

    Deal or no deal — the damage has been done

  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
    Weekend long reads
    Are UK house prices heading for a post-Brexit meltdown?

    The FT looks at previous housing market crashes to see if the circumstances are likely to be repeated now

  • Monday, 31 December, 2018
    Prime property
    Prime property predictions for 2019: the Americas

    Rate rises, tax hikes, political turmoil . . . is the year ahead all about volatility?

  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
    House & Home
    Why I’m spending Christmas with my bank managers

    ‘Bomad’ loans are both deeply unfair on a societal level and deeply risky on a personal one

  • Thursday, 27 September, 2018
    Artificial intelligence
    We should be nicer to Alexa

    The way we treat AI has been a political issue since proposals to give robots ‘electronic personhood’ status

  • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
    At Home with the FT
    Keeping kids safe online: at home with Beeban Kidron

    The Bridget Jones film director says children’s data must be treated differently

  • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
    House & Home
    My summer allergy: children in the city

    London is home to more than 1.5m people under the age of 12. During the holidays, it feels like 15m

  • Wednesday, 25 July, 2018
    UK property
    In defence of estate agents

    It’s easy to knock the trade but the owner-marketer is worse

  • Thursday, 12 July, 2018
    UK Inequality
    Cause or effect? The link between gentrification and violent crime

    The rising property market in cities such as London fuels disaffection and leads to ‘commuting’ criminals

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 3 April, 2018
    House & Home
    How London lost its mojo to Manhattan

    Property developers are rebranding swaths of the capital with corny American names

  • Thursday, 15 March, 2018
    Global property
    How the financial crash made our cities unaffordable

    Since 2008, property markets in the world’s major cities have ‘synchronised’ and left nations and citizens behind

  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2017
    FT SeriesBest of House & Home 2017
    When will natural disaster risk hit house prices?

    Some of the most expensive cities are high-risk, but the economics of housing there still stack up — for now

  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2017
    Asian prime property
    Lack of supply drives rise in Kyoto’s property prices

    There is strong demand for high-end residential in Japan’s former imperial capital

  • Thursday, 16 November, 2017
    UK house prices
    New homes alone won’t solve UK house crisis

    The problem isn’t lack of supply, it’s that the current supply is too expensive

  • Friday, 3 November, 2017
    Prime property
    Global prime property calculator

    How much prime residential property could you buy in the world’s priciest cities?

  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2017
    House & Home
    Portfolio: Dubrovnik, Croatia

    Game of Thrones fame has boosted tourism and house prices in this ancient walled city

  • Sunday, 15 October, 2017
    House & Home
    Portfolio: Nairobi

    The rapid growth of prices in the Kenyan capital has slowed, but agents remain bullish

  • Monday, 4 September, 2017
    House & Home
    Portfolio: Ligurian coast, Italy

    A buoyant tourism trade and infrastructure investment cushioned falls in house prices

  • Friday, 11 August, 2017
    UK property
    London’s Hampstead: an A-list location for film-makers and homebuyers and the FT Weekend Festival

    It is the latest area of the capital to have a movie named after it, but its homes already have blockbuster status

  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    House & Home
    Portfolio: Woodstock, Cape Town

    In the first of a series on good property buys, we look at this city’s hipster HQ

  • Thursday, 13 July, 2017
    Prime property
    What you could buy for the price of a London flat

    You could get a French winery, a Moroccan riad or a whole village in Italy — but would it make financial sense?

  • Friday, 2 June, 2017
    ReviewPolitical books
    Big Capital by Anna Minton — who broke London’s property market?

    How houses in the city went from being homes to financial assets

  • Friday, 5 May, 2017
    UK property
    End of an era for City of London homes?

    After years of unbridled growth, property values have dropped in the wake of stamp duty reforms and Brexit fears

  • Thursday, 27 April, 2017
    UK property
    London housing: too hot for young buyers

    Some first-timers need to borrow 40 times their salary to buy in parts of the city

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2017
    UK property
    Cornwall’s new prime spots for buyers

    Sales are increasing in previously under-the-radar coastal locations, and prices are heading into the millions

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