Landbanking has been labelled a “ticking time bomb”.
Media outlets regularly report about the residents’ fears that developers are sitting on land, hoping for the value to increase, and denying appropriate and timely development.
According to a 2020 report, Time is Money: How Landbanking Constrains Housing Supply, published by the Journal of Housing Economics, there could be some truth to that.
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