If Apartment Values Fall, So Will Housing ... Simultaneously

There has been so much speculation around the apartment market and how it could impact the broader housing sector, however history tell us that this hasn't been the case in the past since 2003. The data actually demonstrates that the apartment market and housing market typically move as one, a really important consideration if you believe there will be an uplift or a fall. Often there is the expectation that every cycle is different, but that is hardly the case in property. Developers build too much on the back of confidence, they stop building and the market catches up, reaches equilibrium for a short period of time and then we over build again and hence the cycle starts all over. If it didn't, then the notion of the "property clock" would cease to exist.