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Perverse Economics: Good intentions and market distortions

by Norman Miller | Aug 24, 2023

I would estimate that over half of all politicians fall into the naïve club that make claims based on assuming nothing will change in response to a new tax, a new regulation or new incentive. For example, they might take the value of all commercial real estate in a metro, state or province and...

The Economist

CPI – a compromised pricing indicator

by Savvas Savouri | Sep 5, 2022

Seldom does another topic supplant the weather as the most common conversation topic amongst Brits. And yet, for six months now, temperature has been eclipsed by heated talk of...

Investor's Notebook

Further confessions of a valuer, 01

by Norman Harker | Sep 1, 2022

Metamorphosis In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in...

Investor's Notebook

Global real estate at a turning point

by Sabina Reeves | Aug 18, 2022

Real assets are not what they were. Just as those of us in the West were starting to get our lives back after the pandemic, Russia invaded Ukraine, provoking a dramatic and...

The Analyst

Everything was forever, until it was no more

by Chris Urwin | Aug 11, 2022

In his 2005 book, Everything was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Alexei Yurchak introduced the term ‘hypernormalisation’. The book concentrated...

The Analyst

A very short history of modern portfolio theory

by Andreas Calianos | Aug 1, 2022

Another instalment in a series of articles detailing how to design a secure, income-producing portfolio. Several years ago, a small experiment led to a terrifying discovery. I...

The Analyst

This bear market has left the FTSE 250 CAPE below fair value

by John Kingham | Jul 28, 2022

Investors as a group are as pessimistic and afraid as they've been for a long time. Many investors are willing to sell at almost any price to escape these negative feelings, and...

The Professor

Generalists and specialists

by Alex Moss | Jul 18, 2022

They’re all under one roof. Who sets the price? Historically, the real estate sector, and in particular the listed real estate, was regarded as a single asset class and...

The Professor

Talk to us

by Nick French | Jul 12, 2022

The failure of generations to capture the skills and knowledge of our elders. In a couple of previous articles, I have developed a theme of getting old and how, in business (and...

The Economist

A few points for persistently high energy-price Mr Potato Head pests

by Savvas Savouri | Jul 6, 2022

The ‘potato cycle’ is a staple (sic) of the economics menu. The first thing, in fact, I was taught on the first day I began as an undergraduate, so, so many years ago. This...