Prop. Notes
Quarterly updates and thoughts from our Proprietor
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9th June 2022
Lessons learnt by a new boy.
In 2021 some distinguished real estate figures, and me, started an entity to help the UK’s most disadvantaged students and, specifically, to introduce them to the huge range of jobs available in real estate and real assets.
This was hardly an original idea, but we thought we would approach it in a slightly different way.
One year on and The Academy of Real Assets is established and active. Here are some of the things I have learnt along the... Read More >
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17th February 2022
Our Proprietor’s somewhat unusual choice.
Your choice of hero can reveal a lot, I reckon. Ronnie Reagan revered the ‘Duke’, John Wayne, and his canon depicting the lone cowboy standing up for freedom, decency and love of the land. In Read More >
29th April 2021
When the tap on the shoulder came what would our undergraduate Proprietor decide?
Confession: I am an addict. If an author gets inside my head, I want to read everything by them immediately. Initial hit accomplished, I return regularly for Read More >
19th April 2021
In our summer 2020 special I was bullish for June 2021, and I still think that by the time of our next quarterly, in spring 2021, we will be at the foothills of a two year mini-boom in property values driven by increased global allocations to Read More >
18th January 2021
This article was originally published in September 2020.
Walter…
In 2010 our small fund management business received a call. It was Jason, numbers man to Walter Kwok, the biggest real estate developer/owner – and the richest man – in Read More >
23rd November 2020
This article was originally published in October 2019.
This month, as guest at one of England’s most famous and senior golf clubs, I was reminded of the brutality of the real estate investment business. A tall, broad smiling, full haired, Read More >
16th September 2020
This article was originally published on 3 July 2019.
Listening to the Today programme a voice from my past comes over the airwaves. Lord, Kenneth of old, Baker was explaining how the toppling of Theresa compared to the Tory Read More >
21st May 2020
My world: June 2021...
This is part of a series of articles where our contributors describe how they think things will look a year from now.
Our Proprietor wonders if he’s alone in his optimism about the post-pandemic economy – has he Read More >
5th April 2020
I am a LinkedIn new boy or, in the jargon, a late adopter. I didn’t join until last year, and now I realise that its main use is to approach total strangers with whom you might do business. What it is not is an interesting platform for Read More >
9th December 2019
In my previous life as a RE Fund Manager, I was not very interested in meeting other professional investors. But one of the best bits about being proprietor of The Property Chronicle is that I get to meet with, and hear what is on the minds of, Read More >
24th September 2019
Back in sticky, sweaty July, discussion over lunch turned to techniques for getting back to sleep at 4am. I confessed that my trick is to watch old political footage on YouTube, including conferences and US Presidential speeches.
Worse Read More >
1st March 2019
My granny only bought shares in companies whose shops or goods she liked. She would not have invested in Patisserie Valerie. Steve Francis and his new management team will, no doubt, have a long ‘to-do’ list but they could start by Read More >
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