Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Any organisation, be it commercial or not-for-profit, needs to have a property strategy - a formal document that sets out how that entity considers its operational and, as applicable, its investment/freehold real estate. Formulating and then implementing an effective property strategy is a crucial...
Lehman Brothers was a legendary Wall Street partnership before a civil war over bonuses between its bankers and traders forced its sale to American Express in 1984 and led to its...
In recent years the stock of care home beds has barely increased in the UK. Whilst there has been new supply created from new developments, and the very occasional...
After years of asset price growth underpinned by ultraloose monetary policy, the party for commercial property seems to be over. A confluence of adversity is hitting the sector....
I was dismayed when the Spring Budget was announced to realise that it made almost no mention of housing. Besides a few pounds spent on a couple of homes for veterans and some...
I recently went on a private tour of one of the most eccentric private houses I have ever seen. Charles Jenks, who, very sadly died in 2019, was an architect and a polymath. He...
Labour has emerged from this summer’s local elections with what appears to be a commanding lead, but this is the time in the electoral cycle when voters go to the polls in local...
Despite what the headlines might sometimes suggest, the housing crisis is not one, uniform problem faced by the whole nation, but rather a series of local and very different...
Each year the Oxford English Dictionary chooses a word/phrase of the year which has emerged into the public consciousness and common usage. Last year it was “Goblin mode”. The...
Prof. Dr. Tobias Just (FRICS) and Dr. Marian Dietzel Given the current demand for housing, the number of residential completions in Germany is too low: Since the last census in...