19th January 2022
It has been said and written with such earnest despair to have become practically axiomatic: 22 will prove a year of acute pressure on household finances... Read More >
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18th January 2022
The country’s declining fertility is an underrated cause of the 20th century’s misfortunes.
Britain’s population will soon be in natural... Read More >
12th January 2022
Why they beat the rest of the high street as a retail experience.
A bone china teapot, a pair of leather brogues, a poetry book, a velvet coat, an... Read More >
11th January 2022
Originally published November 2021.
It’s not often that I agree with Donald Trump, but on one thing he is surely right; the UK's new American Embassy... Read More >
16th December 2021
Originally published March 2021.
The collapse of Greensill involved a predicable cast of unwise enablers, but it should serve as a warning to the... Read More >
15th December 2021
Re-alignment in a post-Covid world
Despite successful vaccination programmes and economic support policies, Covid-19 continues to impact our real estate... Read More >
14th December 2021
Not yet, but further change is needed.
The harbingers of doom have been ringing the death knoll on the UK high street for some time now. The Great... Read More >
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14th December 2021
During the Great Lockdown of 2020, les Echos reported the touristic town of Cannes was one of the five places in France worst affected, alongside... Read More >
9th December 2021
The news on 2 December will have brought a beaming smile to the person responsible for the morning meeting at the Bank of England. They will have been able... Read More >
7th December 2021
Originally published September 2021.
The case of the London and Paris office markets.
While the global framework of the Paris Accord is gradually... Read More >
7th December 2021
Olaf Scholz is soon to be sworn in as the new chancellor of Germany after nearly two months of intense negotiations between the Social Democrats... Read More >
2nd December 2021
Originally published January 2021.
The European real estate universe grows ever move diverse by the year, with the constant geographical expansion of... Read More >
1st December 2021
Am I availing myself of any old sterling excuse?
In the interregnum between voting to leave the EU and actually doing so, I claimed the UK’s final... Read More >
30th November 2021
In June 2020, after 80 days of complete ‘confinement’, I wrote a piece about the “Coronavirus Time Machine”. Inspired by too much lockdown Netflix,... Read More >
24th November 2021
When a clumsy attempt to muzzle German business journalists backfires.
We always get slightly nervous at REFIRE when Germany goes all bullish on the... Read More >
23rd November 2021
This article was originally published in autumn 2020.
Though the smaller format has a shorter shelf life, it provides the benefit of maturing faster –... Read More >
