The snag is that eventually some owners have to sell because of relocation, or job loss and they will be forced to accept lower prices.Indeed, a drop in nominal prices is today more likely than after previous booms for three reasons: homes are more overvalued; inflation is much lower; and many more people have been buying houses as an investment.
Although 19% of households were lost to follow-up, most commonly because of relocation, attack rates among completing households available for 1 visit or 2 were not significantly different.
Moving an existing team to London could be problematic because of relocation fees, stadium leases and other costs.
For example, contact-tracing has recently become more challenging because of relocation of contacts from urban to rural communities (28).
Five of the 6 families dropped out because of relocation.
In addition, 104 participants were lost to follow up, mostly because of relocation out of the study area.
In the main analyses, follow-up was limited to one year to avoid loss of follow-up because of relocation of patients.
During the study, sites were added based on additional funding, two sites dropped out because of relocation of key study staff, and in two sites the study was terminated because of low recruitment (that is, they enrolled less than 70% of eligible patients).
However, it is not unusual to also find other tribes because of relocations from town in pursuit of more land.
Among the 514 pregnant women who composed the initial cohort, 10 were excluded because of miscarriage, stillbirth, relocation, or voluntary withdrawal from the study before follow-up.
