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The fight between Tate Modern and its wealthy neighbours reveals the gentrification of the skies

by Philip Hubbard | Feb 14, 2023 | Residential Investor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

In the UK, legal cases resolving alleged neighbour nuisances are ten-a-penny. Some – about overhanging trees or leylandii hedges that block out the sun – reach the local press. Few, however, have ever taken up the column inches devoted to Fearn v Tate. After a...

Breaking news

by Savvas Savouri | Feb 14, 2023 | The Economist, zOurWriters1

The UK did NOT enter recession in 2022 Last week’s news will come as a surprise to many (and a great disappointment to some) as the Bank of England’s forecasts from as recently as November suggested we should now be seven months into a two-year long recession....

The UK’s ridiculous price index

by Savvas Savouri | Feb 14, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Economist

Originally published December 2022. It began in 1947 as a refreshing new measure, but has long since become a Ridiculously poor price index; unless, that is, you own what it links to and/or happen to like antiquities. It is full of relics we no longer buy or those we...

London: boom or glut?

by Gavriel Merkado | Feb 8, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters1

Below is a graph showing the total number of residential units by estimated completion date and stage of development across London. It is, of course, a ‘best guess’, particularly when you consider that some developments are still planning ‘in progress’. However, it...

La Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

by Simon Silver | Jan 31, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Architect

Originally published December 2020. Frank Gehry’s cultural centre in the Bois de Boulogne was born into controversy but is now accepted as a phenomenal piece of architecture whose structural gymnastics defy belief. La Fondation Louis Vuitton, a remarkable building by...