Special report | The future
What is the future of the rich world’s housing markets?
It is plausible that house prices could persistently rise faster than incomes
MOORE’S LAW states, roughly, that computing power doubles every two years. Time and again experts predicted its demise—surely, they reasoned, computers cannot continue getting exponentially more powerful. Yet it held for at least half a century.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Rebuilding”