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London property faces a bear market in 2018

by Matein Khalid | Jul 17, 2017 | The Macro View

Prime London home prices (Mayfair, Kensington, Belgravia, Chelsea) are now down 20% from their pre-Brexit peaks. Theresa May’s general election gamble and the surprising success of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has negatively impacted foreign investor...

Premium income or discounted ‘growth’?

by Adrian Elwood | Jul 14, 2017 | The Fund Manager

In the last few weeks central bank watchers claim to have detected a new mood emerging from this summer’s gathering of the clan. A desire to follow the Fed down a path which leads to ‘normalisation’ of interest rates and the unwinding of QE in an informal ‘Sintra...

Europe faces macro storm clouds this autumn

by Matein Khalid | Jul 10, 2017 | The Macro View

European equities were the classic ‘pain trade’ of 2017, the bull market’s wall of worry was scalable, even a slam dunk. Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen were defeated in the Dutch and French election, reducing political risk in Europe. Greece got its...

Housebuilders’ share prices have broken new ground

by Tony Williams | Jul 7, 2017 | The Analyst

The Peak District became the UK’s first national park on 17 April 1951; albeit the National Trust owns a 12% minority. Geographically, it forms the southern end of the Pennines and much of the area is uplands above 300 metres (984 feet) with a high point on Kinder...

The UK housing market in the interwar years: what can we learn?

by Tehreem Husain | Jun 26, 2017 | The Historian

Housing, an essential human need, forms a key sector of the economy. It forms a crucial component of investment and in many countries, makes up a large component of overall wealth. Taking the case of the United States, Zhu (2014) noted that real estate accounts for a...