THE GREAT “LAND QUESTION”
21st September 2018
Having just delivered a panegyric on “Cities of Tomorrow” at a recent conference on Urban Sustainability, and praising the growing practice of... Read More >
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Craigmore Commentary
20th September 2018
What are the regional effects of climate change on farmland / crop yields?
As can be seen from the green (benefiting from climate change) and red... Read More >
Trump Tariffs and REITs
20th September 2018
President Trump announced new tariffs this week on around $200 billion in Chinese goods, and Mr. Market just shrugged it off, as The Art of The Deal was old... Read More >
Broken Estate Agency Market
19th September 2018
Who will be the winners in the “broken estate agency” market?
We know that the current and foreseeable UK macro property market position lacks... Read More >
Investing in Agriculture – what should you think about?
18th September 2018
Most of us have probably heard that the we need to increase food production by 70% to feed the world in 2050.
Sounds impressive.
Sounds like an... Read More >
The Long View
17th September 2018
The online retail business is 11% of the total world wide retail sales and 16% of the UK’s. In both cases it seems to be growing at about 1% per annum but... Read More >
What Agriculture fits with future Environmental needs?
14th September 2018
The construction of the World’s largest vertical farm, in Dubai, was recently announced. Effectively a high tech, multi-storied urban greenhouse, once... Read More >
Latest Articles
Investing in Polish Commercial Property 3
13th September 2018
In my last article I set out my company’s broad approach to investing in commercial property and in Poland in particular. I thought it might be... Read More >
Notes from Cambridge 2
12th September 2018
The Prime Minister continues to cling to the nonsensical view that foreign students should be counted in the immigration numbers. The policy was based on... Read More >
Trends in UK Commercial Real Estate Investment
11th September 2018
UK real estate transactions being undertaken by GCC investors which we commonly hear about include the acquisition of high end residential property (Chelsea... Read More >
‘X’ marks the spot – Where to find today’s gold to fund our ships
11th September 2018
There is a natural interest in the maritime industry. As children we enjoyed the adventures of walking the plank, playing battle ships and imagining the... Read More >
THE DEBATE ON HIGHER RATES: LET BATTLE COMMENCE
11th September 2018
Peter Warburton replies to Robin Marshall's response to his article.
I am grateful to Robin Marshall for his comments on my article. I would like to... Read More >
Searchlight
11th September 2018
What the journals are saying
Knowledge is power, or so the cliché goes. But knowledge is much more than that, it is influence, it is authority, it is... Read More >
Property Valuation: Climate change and perpetual assumptions
10th September 2018
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating." - John Schaar, Legitimacy in the Modern State (1981)
Although the quote above... Read More >
The debate on higher rates: let battle commence
10th September 2018
Robin Marshall has responded to Peter Warburton's article titled 'What does the flattening yield curve mean'.
The first paragraph ends with a perfectly... Read More >
Bond yields and real estate prices – where next?
10th September 2018
The decade since the Global Financial Crisis has seen sharp increases in asset prices apparently driven by low interest rates. These low interest rates have... Read More >
