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Balancing status-seeking behaviour: getting workplaces working

by Chris Urwin | Aug 7, 2023

The adaptation to hybrid work continues to shape the modern workplace. Business leaders often hope their teams will spend more time in the office. But they may need to fully comprehend the significance of status-signalling and status-seeking behaviour within the office environment. The experience...

The Fund Manager

Staying power versus paying power

by Jamie Dannhauser | Mar 16, 2022

Inflation is running hot, even before wage-price pressures have begun. Central bankers tell us the current burst of inflation will be transitory and workers will not mind the...

The Macro View

The hypocrisy, gibberish and cost of ESG

by Ben Habib | Feb 17, 2022

Kicking good sense out of touch. For most of us, the pursuit of profit has been the primary driver of our businesses. Recently, a new constituent has emerged in the form of...

Residential Investor

Data-driven analysis facilitates investment

by Samantha Kempe | Feb 10, 2022

New tech can speed up Europe’s single-family rental sector. As we end the last quarter of 2021, a second volatile year due to the pandemic, institutional investment in Europe’s...

The Professor

Retail rents

by Malcolm Frodsham and Nick French | Jan 31, 2022

A story of supply and demand? In a previous article (The Property Chronicle, Autumn 2021, ‘Property Investment: Is it still worth it?’), it was argued that rents are an...

The Analyst

Midwest markets demonstrate resiliency during pandemic

by David Ronsick, Ryan Wallace, Dan Askew and Marissa Oberlander | Dec 14, 2021

The Midwest region is a broad geography encompassing the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi and Ohio River watersheds. Major cities in the area include well-known names like...

Head Of Research

Be a setter, not a taker

by Paul Stewart | Dec 7, 2021

It always comes back to supply and demand. Inflation in small doses can stimulate property markets, diverting investor demand out of fixed income, but harmful should it lead to...

The Farmer

Inflation and farm gate prices

by Forbes Elworthy | Dec 1, 2021

US dollar food commodity prices have risen 40% since the onset of Covid-19 in March 2020. This sharp price jump, shown in the graph below, has reversed a painful period of farm...

The Analyst

Energy and coal

by Alfred Sadek | Nov 22, 2021

Achieving net zero emissions has a long way to go. Some of the historical events accentuating the recent decade is the threat of pandemics and the urgency towards embracing...

The Economist

China: neither military nor monetary threat

by Savvas Savouri | Nov 8, 2021

Seldom since its civil war and prior to that its battle for independence, has America’s internal future/fortunes been so vulnerable to the actions of outsiders serving their own...