Residential Investor
What a £350,000 average house price means for first-time buyers in Great Britain
The average house price in Great Britain has risen above £350,000 for the first time, according to property website Rightmove. From 2021 to 2022, house prices in all regions and countries, except...
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Golden Oldie
The good old days?
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 in Nine Elms was a “lousy...
The Professor
The impact of higher inflation on US asset class returns
Which US asset classes perform best or worst amid periods of high inflation (6% or more)? Answer: commodities perform best, while bills perform worst. It’s commonly recognised...
The Storyteller
The emergence of blues billionaires
Bruce Springsteen selling his music to Sony for a half-billion dollars has gotten me thinking about my music and what I might get for the songs I wrote when my radio show was...
The Professor
Tough times for property investors
Keep your eye on the far horizon, says this writer. Real estate owners and users are not short of business challenges right now. Climate change, energy use and carbon emission;...
Investor's Notebook
Build. Demolish. Repeat
The Japanese housing depreciation dilemma. While Japan shares many characteristics of the West – a democratic political system and capitalist economic system – one area that...
Alternative assets
All that glisters is not gold
Originally published March 2021. The collapse of Greensill involved a predicable cast of unwise enablers, but it should serve as a warning to the growing number of alternative...
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