Housing market commentary is full of received wisdom which is not all that wise. There are issues that remain unconsidered, even taboo.

The Professor

Housing market commentary is full of received wisdom which is not all that wise. There are issues that remain unconsidered, even taboo.
The average pay of FTSE100 CEOs rose by 16% from £3.38 million in 2021 to £3.91 million in 2022, according to the latest figures from thinktank the High Pay Centre. In the...
From the early days of human space activity in the 1960s, missions to the Moon have attracted significant global attention. India’s recent success in landing the Chandrayaan-3...
As Kyiv’s counteroffensive to liberate Russian-occupied territories slowly advances in Ukraine’s east, the drone war continues to escalate. Beyond the symbolic value of...
The debate about how much of a role Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play in our lives is essentially over. AI is here to stay and will play a significant role in every facet of...
There has been much talk about offices heading for the buffers. The nightmare scenario is many thousands of office buildings being deemed virtually worthless as leases...
In 1937 the English economist Joan Robinson proposed that “when capitalism is rightly understood, the rate of interest will be set at zero and the major evils of...
Another instalment in a series of articles detailing how to design a secure, income-producing portfolio. In my series of articles so far, we have dispelled the idea that...
On 11 May, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee raised Bank Rate to 4.5%, a level last observed in October 2008. Since November last year, the Bank has also been reversing its...
The consequences of cyclical lending and the need for a new prudent framework. I remember in the mid-to-late 1980s, when I was a relatively young, newly qualified valuation...