Global | The Property Chronicle

Will the ESG agenda lead to more distressed property assets?

by Sarah Rayment and Jess Woods | Jul 25, 2022 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

How to avoid a widening gap. Investors and occupiers are increasingly prioritising environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials as part of their appraisal process for office space across the UK. As the demand for grade A office space rises alongside the...

What next for Hong Kong?

by Alan Dalgleish | Jul 22, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article

Post-Covid, life has not yet reached the new normal, according to this writer. Some readers will know that I relocated from Hong Kong to the UK in early March. I have to say that it was a traumatic experience, not to put too fine a point on it. There are two main...

Steady for some, a correction for others

by Alan Carter | Jul 21, 2022 | The Analyst, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

A look at how accurate predictions proved to be. If my thought process at the beginning of the year was ‘Buy the Discounts’, the corollary was to ‘Sell the Premiums’. Doing the latter would have saved you a lot of money, doing the former wouldn’t have cost you much....

John Galsworthy

by Paul Lowden | Jul 20, 2022 | The Professor

We continue with the next instalment in the series on Nobel laureate authors, some of whom may not stand the test of time. In terms of sheer volume, it is hard to beat Galsworthy, whose 1932 citation records his ‘distinguished art of narration which takes its...

Five things that economists know, but sound wrong to most other people

by Renaud Foucart | Jul 20, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Economist

Originally published May 2022. Economists have shaped the modern world in many ways. Governments make policy choices in response to the data that we produce about things like GDP and inflation. Social media companies use our insights about human behaviour to create...