We offer a range of services to maximise the impact of investment and local development strategies. Our specialist applied economists use a range of appraisal and modelling techniques to provide robust evidence for enhanced decision making and improved implementation.
Our team of 45 researchers are currently working with governments, public and private sector clients throughout Europe and all four countries of the UK. Some of our thinking is published in our RED Review, available here.
Key Themes
- Understand and define your housing market
- Assess key housing market drivers
- Prepare housing investment programmes
- Develop your housing strategy and policy
- Understand market change - migration, private rented sector, affordability
- Evaluate your effectiveness
- Plan and manage your activities
Services & Products
Ecorys' dedicated housing team is experienced in working with local authorities and national and regional agencies to develop and implement housing and planning policy. We work with housing associations and local authorities to support business planning and asset management and with a range of sub-regional partnerships to understand markets and develop policies and strategies to support sustainable and successful communities.
- Strategic research and intelligence
- Housing market assessments
- Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) housing research and strategy
- Young person housing research and options
- Housing demand assessment modelling
- Private rental market research
- Housing and regeneration
Case Studies
Role of private rented sector in South Yorkshire
TRANSFORM S.Yorkshire, the Housing Market RenewaL Pathfinder for the area, commissioned Ecorys (formerly ECOTEC) to research the role and impact of the private rented sector in four towns – Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield. Within those towns, special attention was paid to former coalfield villages, areas of concentrations of Right-to-Buy activity and student areas. A combination of postal survey and door-to-door interviewing researched the views and needs of private rented sector tenants. A series of interviews with landlords, managing and lettings agents filled in the picture from the side of the providers. And extensive analysis of secondary housing and Housing Benefit data placed the results of the work in a firm context. The final report contained a toolkit and series of recommendations for the monitoring, control and quality development of the sector.
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Strategic Housing Market Assessment for the East Kent Sub-region
Ecorys (formerly ECOTEC) were commissioned to carry out a Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) for the East Kent sub-region (comprising the local authority areas of Canterbury, Dover, Shepway, Swale and Thanet), to help inform the Local Development Frameworks and housing strategies of those authorities. The sub-region has ambitious housing and economic development plans, but faces major issues around affordability, transport connectivity, the regeneration requirements of coastal towns and issues to do with rurality. The SHMA breaks the sub-region down into twenty-one local housing markets, and analyses the interaction between them, and the major London and south eastern housing markets, as well as making recommendations for future housing development.
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