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Thanks for the memories

by Marc Gilbard | Jun 23, 2020 | Investor's Notebook

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 22ND SEPTEMBER 2017 I started my real estate career in the early 1980s, so over 30 years ago! I have been involved in many areas of UK real estate during that period, both cosseted in booms and fighting for survival in busts whilst finding...

Sustained demand for logistics

by Richard Barkham | Apr 27, 2018 | The Economist

U.S real estate is having ‘a good cycle’. It is a long one by any standards. We are also seeing shifts between sectors. Single family homes have given way to apartments; but the way in which the retail has ceded ground to industrial and logistics is the biggest...

Urban Big Data and Real Estate Markets

by Richard Barkham | Mar 22, 2018 | The Economist

Most real estate value is created at the urban level, but some of the most expensive cities in the world are the least well-functioning. So, it does not follow that improvements in the ways cities are run will flow directly into increased real estate value, but they...

Global Investing

by Matein Khalid | Mar 18, 2018 | The Macro View

GCC Focus – Losing and making money in commercial property The sharp rise in US Treasury, British gilt, German Bund and other government bond yields is a disaster for real estate investment trusts (REIT’s) worldwide, including those in the GCC. In the $1.2 trillion US...

Let your office tenant sublet space without your consent?!

by Neil Stafford | Mar 12, 2018 | Investor's Notebook

I’ve recently been involved in a few subletting transactions relating to offices in London. These transactions were time-critical, but very time-consuming, and the pain of securing superior landlord consent for the subletting at times made me want to poke myself...