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Guides to making money in residential property investment.

• Why real estate cycles matter
• Buying or selling a house
• How to avoid buying into a bubble.
• What explains house prices?
  
  

Guides to the academic literature.

Links to articles by the world's leading finance academics, outlining the current state of real estate investment theory. We attempt to represent the dominant contemporary schools of thought in a balanced way.

• Cycles which affect residential property
• The development of living patterns (urban, suburban, global)
• House price busts and their impact on the wider economy
• Should central banks directly target house prices?
• Mortgage markets
• Tenure systems
• Regulation and zoning
• Reading lists