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I feel the polls are poorly worded. My visceral reaction to the first question was , no the people are of the correct quantity it is the job numbers which would be wrong, so I felt the poll would be happy influenced by this implication that there can be the wrong number of people to fulfil economic requirements . Although this was a simple poll to try and support the article it left me with an immediate bad impression of academically poor data research and that you support that in economics we may need to adjust the number of people to meet some requirement.

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The agent terminates the lease saying the house is being put on the market, but actually pushes up the rent excessively for the next lease. The renter goes out to find a more affordable rental.

This is a manipulated market, the real estate agents are organised, renters are isolated and disempowered.

Pushing renters out at the end of a lease allows the rent to be increased excessively, also causes increased apparent demand.

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"when rents are rising the need for advertising diminishes and searching is quicker, and vice-versa" - why is this the case? i dont understand the reasoning and I couldn't find any additional detail in the paper

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Is the vacancy rate analogous to the unemployment rate? Isn't it more analogous to the rate of vacant jobs as a proportion of all jobs? It seems to be confusing to compare it to the unemployment rate, at least because it is undesirable to have a vacancy rate of 0%.

If low rental vacancy and increasing prices are co-determined by the same process, what is this process?

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