Analyses

1. A1

   What housing we have

   The housing stock by size and year built in over fifty towns, who built it and who lives there now, and what the post-war generation got that today's young do not.

   1. Compressed flats
   2. Dwellings by size and year built
   3. Houses grew
   4. How much we built
   5. The boomers are not the largest generation
   6. Who lives in the socialist blocks now
   7. Ownership: the young and the old
   8. Wealth: the young are missing
   9. Then and now
   10. The stairs
   11. Older people in walk-ups
   12. Empty dwellings
   13. Dwellings with nobody registered
   14. What comes next
   15. How it is calculated
   16. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: housing_stock, socialism, boomers

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2. A2

   Who owns Slovenia

   Land and dwellings by the owners the register can name: the state, municipalities, the Catholic Church, companies and public funds. Where their land lies, and how much empty housing land is already public.

   1. Land by owner
   2. The largest named owners
   3. Where their land lies
   4. By municipality
   5. Public housing
   6. Empty land for housing
   7. Ljubljana: empty housing plots
   8. How it is calculated
   9. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: public_owners

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3. A3

   Ljubljana is changing

   Where Ljubljana changes fastest, how, and who lives there: prices, rents, renovation, new building and visitor units around every residential building, 2013–2025.

   1. The city in 3D
   2. Two Ljubljanas
   3. The districts
   4. Cheap and fast
   5. The map: look for yourself
   6. Who lives there
   7. The 2026 vote by speed of change
   8. Citizens' filings
   9. How it is calculated
   10. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: gentrification

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4. A4

   The price of location

   The same building elsewhere: every building in Slovenia against its likest buildings elsewhere, Trnovski pristan 22 and its twins in five towns, and towns built alike but priced apart.

   1. What location adds
   2. The location premium by settlement
   3. The same building, another price
   4. Trnovski pristan 22 and its twins
   5. Built alike, priced apart
   6. What the GURS value is
   7. How it is calculated
   8. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: building_vectors

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5. A5

   Who the market suits

   Prices, rents and wages since 2015, how much of an income a flat in Ljubljana takes, who is overburdened, and how taxes and offices shape what is built.

   1. Prices, rents, wages
   2. Your flat, your income
   3. Slovenia is already private
   4. Who is overburdened
   5. Is the state the worst manager?
   6. A tax shapes the flats
   7. Red tape
   8. The wait by administrative unit
   9. A property tax and empty flats
   10. How it is calculated
   11. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: affordability, public_owners, market_freedom, property_tax

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6. A6

   Claims, checked

   Claims about housing as they are heard in public, taken apart into checkable statements. Each is answered true or false, with its numbers and primary sources linked.

   1. The claims
   2. What no register can tell
   3. How the claims are checked
   4. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: thread (cards, statements)

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7. A7

   Slovenia is ageing

   Population projected by municipality to 2051, what population decline has already done to prices, the pressure on care for the old, the loop between prices and migration, and building as the limit.

   1. More deaths than births
   2. Age changes faster than numbers
   3. Where it empties
   4. Change by municipality
   5. Who will care for the old
   6. Ljubljana grows only from abroad
   7. What decline has already done to prices
   8. If the past relationship held
   9. Care is squeezed
   10. Care pressure by municipality
   11. The old do not move
   12. A flight to the capital only at an extreme reaction
   13. A dear Ljubljana sends people to its surroundings
   14. Building is the limit
   15. How it is calculated
   16. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: population_decline

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8. A8

   What moves house prices

   Twenty economic indicators, the stock market and interest rates against dwelling prices and rents, quarterly since 2006: what moves together, what leads and what improves a forecast.

   1. The series
   2. Prices are part of the business cycle
   3. Who leads whom
   4. Interest rates rise with prices
   5. Equities lead by two quarters
   6. A correlation is not a forecast
   7. Wages follow prices, not the other way
   8. Rents follow inflation
   9. Real prices
   10. How it is calculated
   11. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: macro_links

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9. A9

   The media and the property market

   How much Slovenian web media write about real estate, whether that follows the market, what sets it off, and whether the media relay or investigate. From counts of articles, not their text.

   1. How much they write
   2. What sets coverage off
   3. What they write about
   4. The market grows, coverage falls
   5. Coverage does not follow the market
   6. Who writes
   7. The property tax
   8. Part two: relay or investigate?
   9. Who the source is
   10. On the day a statistic is released
   11. Own work by outlet
   12. The same title in several outlets
   13. The answer: mostly relaying
   14. How it is calculated
   15. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

   Studies: media_attention

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10. A10

    How free is the market

    The freedom of the property market in four questions: who sets the price, what taxes move, whether supply answers price, and who may buy. From every ETN contract since 2007.

    1. Four questions
    2. Part one: price, taxes, quantity
    3. The parties set the price
    4. Forced sales followed the crisis
    5. The tags mean what they say
    6. A rent set by law
    7. Taxes decide when property is sold
    8. Permission multiplies the price of land
    9. Where permission is worth most
    10. Where prices rose, building did not follow
    11. Part two: quantity over the cycle
    12. Supply follows the cycle
    13. Down fast, up slowly
    14. Building moves with price, sales do not
    15. Rates move the number of sales, not prices
    16. In time yes, in place no
    17. Who may buy: what the data cannot see
    18. So how free is the market
    19. How it is computed
    20. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: market_freedom

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11. A11

    What the adverts show

    Forty daily censuses of property adverts: where asking prices sit, what leaves the board, who advertises, and why an advert is not a sale. With maps and interactive charts.

    1. Where prices are
    2. Asking prices by municipality
    3. Ljubljana by district
    4. Small is dear, and new is mostly elsewhere
    5. The energy class is mostly the building's age
    6. An advert and a contract are two registers
    7. A fresh rent year reads too high
    8. A month of asking prices
    9. The student September
    10. What leaves is not sold
    11. Who advertises
    12. The dearest adverts stay
    13. Buy to let
    14. Short-term letting
    15. New build on the board
    16. How it is calculated
    17. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: adverts

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12. A12

    Where a family can move

    A family in Ljubljana wants to buy a flat or a house. A chooser by budget and drive time shows the places that fit and recommends four, priced from the register of sales.

    1. The chooser
    2. How the recommendations are chosen
    3. What nearness costs
    4. The cheapest places by band
    5. Moving within Ljubljana
    6. What the chooser does not know
    7. How it is calculated
    8. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: family_home

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13. A13

    Six towns on foot

    How many minutes' walk the grocery, kindergarten, school, pharmacy and stop are from every building in the cores of Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kranj, Nova Gorica and Koper.

    1. What the score measures
    2. Six cores, one rule
    3. The map, town by town
    4. What is near and what is not
    5. Towns are alike, streets are not
    6. From the centre outwards
    7. Per dwelling or per building
    8. What the score does not say
    9. How it is calculated
    10. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: walkability

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14. A14

    What a town gives for its price

    The hundred largest settlements in four quadrants: the price of a flat in years of wages against what is within a walk, the share of children, years of rent and flood hazard.

    1. Price in years of wages
    2. Four quadrants
    3. Convenience is not what you pay for
    4. The youngest places are the dear suburbs
    5. Buy or rent
    6. Flood hazard does not show in the price
    7. What the picture does not say
    8. How it is calculated
    9. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: town_quadrants

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15. A15

    A property tax, put to the test

    What the 2024 property-tax draft would do, why the tax base cannot carry it, and how to repair it: a simulation on every dwelling in the register, a grid of designs and three proposals.

    1. Part one · The 2024 draft
    2. What was proposed
    3. Who would pay
    4. The tax would take half the rent
    5. Five years on: one exemption decides
    6. How many flats come to market
    7. Most would avoid it by a gift
    8. The same homes under foreign rules
    9. Owners lose at the announcement
    10. Part two · The base cannot carry it
    11. Same price, twice the tax
    12. The base fails the standard
    13. Not regressive, only imprecise
    14. The error sits in the single home
    15. Repairing the base buys a little
    16. One home in three to nearly one in two above its price
    17. Part three · How to repair it
    18. Three repairs every proposal shares
    19. The condition: rents must fall
    20. Every rule has a cost
    21. Homes or revenue: not both
    22. A let must be relieved enough
    23. Three proposals
    24. Which to choose
    25. What the simulation does not know
    26. How it is calculated
    27. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: property_tax

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16. A16

    Ljubljana: renting, buying, selling

    What the registers tell a renter, a buyer and a seller in Ljubljana: rents and prices by district and size, what the rental register hides, what is worth paying for and how much a flat has really gained.

    1. Ljubljana by district
    2. Your district, your size
    3. I. The renter
    4. Rents have risen by a third to a half since 2015
    5. The data stop in 2024
    6. What renting costs, by size
    7. The luck factor
    8. What the rental register does not see
    9. A yield nobody would accept
    10. II. The buyer
    11. What buying costs, and why size is the cheapest thing to buy
    12. How to tell whether you are overpaying
    13. What waiting has cost
    14. What is worth paying for, and what is not
    15. Buy or rent
    16. There is little choice, and the district matters less than it seems
    17. III. The seller
    18. Price per m² by district and size
    19. What the same flats have really gained
    20. Where the market is now
    21. Two flats, one building, two prices
    22. Where a buyer turns up sooner
    23. Do not compare houses and flats by the m²
    24. What this data cannot tell you
    25. How it is calculated
    26. Can the Bloki server answer questions like these?

    Studies: lj_renter, lj_buyer, lj_seller

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