Yiannis Misirlis

Cyprus housing crisis: the 25,000 homes it still needs

There is one number that, in my view, should change the way we discuss housing in Cyprus: 25,000 homes. These are not homes needed over...

Construction costs must be part of affordable housing

The housing market already faces enough challenges. Housing supply is limited, planning and permitting times can be unreasonably long, land is expensive and finance...

The real cost of planning delays in the housing market

Planning delays are often blamed for increasing the cost of new homes. Yet the debate rarely moves beyond broad references to bureaucracy, with little...

How geopolitics is driving up housing costs in Cyprus

Europe may already be entering its second major energy crisis in just a few years. For Cyprus, a small, open and highly energy-dependent economy,...

Cyprus housing debate risks targeting the wrong culprit

In every housing cycle, markets search for a villain. Today, in Cyprus, the spotlight has turned toward foreign, particularly non-European, buyers. The policy response now...

Property: trust the numbers not the rumours

When it comes to property trust the numbers, not rumours says Yiannis Misirlis commenting on the views of Nobel Laureate in Economics Christopher Pissarides last Sunday.

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