Patterns from complexity

"Real estate trends in Europe usually operate within country blocs…moving rapidly from one country to another within a bloc.

Examples of such blocs are:

• The Nordics, excepting oil-rich Norway, linked by trading patterns and socio-political history
• Core 'common market' Europe: France, Germany, Benelux
• Britain and Ireland: first to catch an American cold - and to recover
• 'New' stable Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltic states - dancing to a youthful economic tune
• Italy and Spain will tend to evolve idiosyncratically."

Andrew Thornton