The European section is intended to provide an open forum for the presentation of comparative European property research.

In the second half of the 1980s the United Kingdom experienced a widening of house‐price differentials between the South and the North, thus providing an extra Impetus to the claim of a North South divide. This paper adopts a broader perspective and examines the view that the pattern of house price differentials across regions resembles a ripple effect. Long time‐series data covering 10 UK fusions and various statistical/econometric techniques are used to test the ripple‐effect hypothesis. The cumulative evidence seems to conform to the hypothesis. Various explanations of this phenomenon, including interregional migration, are considered.

How does the Internet affect journalism? The Internet will not replace journalism and the media but provide a new channel of communication in parallel to the more traditional print forms. Multi-dimensional online newspapers will give journalists the opportunity to write to diverse audiences without concerns for space and length of text. This diversity will parallel an overall increase in diversity in the media. These developments may indeed lead to new kinds of communities emerging, where journalists act as facilitators, enlivening discussion on given topic for different groups in a given community.

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