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Embracing Uncertainty: Rethinking the past to make better predictions

by Chris Urwin and Jeffrey NG | Jun 19, 2023

How we think about the past influences how we think about the future, including what lies ahead for real estate. With many medium and long-term trends at play, not the least the curveballs thrown by the last pandemic, investors must be agile and responsive as views of the future change....

Technology

Proptech: are we missing the boat?

by Martin Schwarzburg | Dec 16, 2020

Continuing our three-part series on proptech, a look at the innovation gap in real estate. Following our walk down proptech’s memory lane last week, today we will look at the...

The Analyst

History always repeats itself, but never in the same way

by Robert Stassen | Dec 3, 2020

What can real estate expect in 2021? After rain there is sunshine, as a Dutch saying goes. And if you have as much rain as we do, you know what you are talking about. So, can we...

Audio

Big themes for 2021

by Tom Duncan | Nov 26, 2020

Each one of these trends is underpinned by a higher weighting afforded to individual needs, preferences and experiences – meaning that real estate developers and landlords can no...

The Lawyer

Let’s man the barricades over the latest covid lockdown

by The Shy Solicitor | Nov 18, 2020

Who can resist being provided with a soapbox? The Property Chronicle asked whether, as a partner in a reasonably sized London law firm, I would reveal some of the black arts of...

The Professor

Learning to live with extreme risk (part 2)

by David Higgins and Treshani Perera | Nov 11, 2020

“I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile” – Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p4 Looking beyond covid-19 (see our...

The Analyst

What did ya miss in REITland?

by David Auerbach and Mary Jensen | Nov 3, 2020

The broad-based REIT indexes were relatively flat last week, which was in tandem with the broader based indices.But the biggest talking point has been the two recent...

The Analyst

Single-family housing permits extend five-month surge

by Robert Hughes | Oct 28, 2020

Housing activity – starts and permits – posted strong results in September as the single-family segment made gains across most of the country while multifamily housing appears to...

Head Of Research

America heads for home

by Pamela Boneham | Oct 19, 2020

US home sales are soaring, and even renters now favour suburban units with ample space for home-working. Should urban landlords be worried? A growing trend in the US housing...

The Professor

Valuing REITs in a time of turbulence

by Alex Moss | Oct 12, 2020

Ordinary valuation methods prove inaccurate when the measures they’re based on are in such a state of flux – it’s time to turn to a different methodology. In ordinary...