by WhWills2562 | Dec 23, 2021 | London
No longer ‘alternative’? Market maturity and investment in London’s Student Accommodation sector One of the most startling findings from the London team’s exploration of investment into residential real estate was the significant volume of capital flowing into the...
by WhWills2562 | Mar 19, 2021 | Housing, London
Planning for residential ‘value’ in London? Image by David Samuel In a seminar for the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, London WHIG team member Nicola Livingstone reflected on findings from a recently published paper that explores planning...
by WhWills2562 | Aug 19, 2020 | London, Planning
The Geographies of Viability Planning In a recent new publication Whig researchers Jess Ferm and Mike Raco explore the geographies of viability-driven planning reform in England. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork in London and the North East region, the paper...
by WhWills2562 | Sep 3, 2019 | Debt, Financialization, London
Given our focus on investment into residential real estate, an essential dimension is understanding how housing fits more broadly within the financialized economy of the UK (and the Netherlands and France). An important but under engaged within urban studies part of...
by WhWills2562 | Jun 20, 2019 | Financialization, London, Regeneration
UCL has a long-standing relationship with Just Space, an umbrella organisation for community groups across London. Whilst the WHIG project is not explicitly working with them at this stage, their work is highly relevant to understanding the planning context of London...
by WhWills2562 | Jun 12, 2019 | Investors, London
Hamlet Without the Prince or Why We Need More Research on How Private Sector Actors See the World. I recently gave a paper in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow on the subject of ‘Seeing Like an Investor’. The talk was based on a paper that...