british land | The Property Chronicle

A History of Land Registry and its Importance Today

by Tehreem Husain | Jul 25, 2018 | The Historian

Recent data from the Office of National Statistics and HM Land registry show that house prices rose 3% in the year to May 2018, relative to a growth of 3.5 percent in the same period last year. This is the lowest annual rate of growth since 2013, attributed due to...

The cycle’s not over yet

by Jonathan Davis | Sep 29, 2017 | Face to Face

Gerald Kaye is a 20-year veteran at Helical plc (formerly Helical Bar) and has been CEO since July 2016. His office overlooks Hanover Square, which today still looks like a bombsite, thanks to the ongoing Crossrail construction work. Were it not for the construction...

How can REITs reduce their discounts in the absence of M&A activity?

by Mark Cartlich | Jul 18, 2017 | The Fund Manager

Previously in this column we looked at what appeared to be the start of a new trend of M&A in the property sector, following the bids for Market Tech and Kennedy Wilson Europe. However, the trend has in fact not materialised. It seems that investors would rather...

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...

The View from Berkeley Square

by Robert Fowlds | Jul 3, 2017 | Investor's Notebook

Halfway through 2017 the global listed sector is performing better than I had expected, up over 7% Total Return in USD terms, although much of this is down to dollar weakness with the sector up just 2% in sterling and flat in euros. But the big moves for a dollar...