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The Search for Expertise: Why Real Estate Investment Managers Need More Than Just Experience

by Chris Urwin | Sep 18, 2023

Originally published May 2023. Many use experience and expertise interchangeably, but they are different. While experience comes from exposure to a particular field, expertise develops when that experience is refined, codified, and transformed into a predictive model that works. Real estate...

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What is behind The New York Times’ bizarre coverage of British crime?

by Sam Ashworth-Hayes | May 14, 2023

There’s a fun game to be played with The New York Times’ coverage of British crime. It’s very simple and you can play along at home: how many paragraphs will it take...

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Is virtual land nonsense?

by Luke Graham | May 14, 2023

Not if it can generate income… Originally published July 2022. Mostly confined to cyberpunk and tech circles prior to 2021, the metaverse has since experienced breakout attention...

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Horrible bosses

by Robert Donoghue and Tiago Vieira | May 14, 2023

How algorithm managers are taking over the office. The 1999 cult classic film Office Space depicts Peter’s dreary life as a cubicle-dwelling software engineer. Every Friday,...

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Why you should have more sympathy for seagulls…

by Madeleine Goumas | May 9, 2023

...and how to stop them stealing your chips. On a summer’s day at the beach, the sound of seagulls is part of the ambience. But what about when they’re in the middle of a...

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Why Britain needs more empty homes

by Freddie Poser | May 9, 2023

Write anything about housing and you’ll usually be hit with a classic non-gotcha: "What about empty homes?" What about those supposed millions of properties that lie unused?...

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House prices: a long-run view

by Tehreem Husain | May 9, 2023

Housing has been one of the most essential services consumed by human beings and real estate has been a key store of wealth. Houses are a large proportion of household wealth,...

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Hedge clippings

by Colin Lizieri | May 2, 2023

Property as safe haven in downturn. As I reach the officially designated twilight years of my career, the recent burst of inflation in the UK and the upward shift in bond yields...

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Sir Isaac Newton just loved property valuation

by Nick French | May 2, 2023

A look at the mathematician and his tables. In over 35 years of public speaking, I have made audiences grimace, laugh and, I hope, develop their understanding of the world of...

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Electric vs gas cars – a real life (husband and wife) comparison

by Norm Miller | May 2, 2023

How they work and the implications. Part 1: the economics Recently, a colleague posted an opinion on social media that he would stick with his gas-powered Mustang, stating...