An economic outlook. The global economy is constantly in motion, with various factors influencing its trajectory. From inflation to trade relations and political events: where are we heading and where do we stand? Economically speaking, we are experiencing a significant slowdown due to a combination of factors such as efforts to curb rising inflation through […]
Real estate is a relationship business. It is sometimes an ego business. And it is often an emotional business. So making the case that data-driven analysis should drive investment decision-making can be difficult. But in another arena, data analysts have been gradually reshaping competitive strategies. To see for yourself, tune in this weekend to watch […]
You can’t have a soft landing and a Fed pivot. Expected Fed funds rates by December 2023 After a dismal 2022, markets are off to a flying start this year. Chinese and European equities are leading the way – the FTSE 100 is close to an all-time high and even some of the epic ‘fails’ […]
This article was originally published in June 2019. It was the first in an ongoing series by our very own Property Chronicle NASA astrophysicist, to make sure we don’t take real estate, economics and investing too seriously and to keep our daily lives in perspective. An asteroid for which there is some possibility of a collision […]
The hidden art worth millions could change our perception of museums. Recently, I suggested to one of my daughters we visit our local art gallery. It is a contemporary space in a former tea warehouse that bows to no one in its commitment to the bleeding edge. Her reply was emphatic: she had never understood the […]
The apartment across the hall from where we’re staying in Minneapolis is undergoing extensive renovation – walls being moved, floors torn up and every day last week the noise from there was seismic, volcanic, like they were throwing pickup trucks into a giant grinder – and when I walked out of our place and saw […]
How the French take-over changed England profoundly. When Messrs Sellar and Yeatman produced their classic satire of the history that could be remembered from schooldays, they chose to include in their title the one date that every proverbial schoolchild knows: 1066 and all that. That year saw William the Conqueror invade Anglo-Saxon England, defeat the […]
An overview of the book by its co-author Edward Trevillion, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The inspiration for this book came from updating Will Fraser’s text, ‘Principles of Property Investment and Pricing’, the last edition of which was published in 1993. Much has changed in the property market context since that popular textbook was the mainstay […]
Originally published September 2020. My first visit to Istanbul was part of an architectural tour while studying at the Architectural Association. We were ably led by my tutor, Mark Prizeman, who was a founding member of the avant-garde architectural group NATO (which stood for Narrative Architecture Today). NATO took a serious although somewhat anarchic view […]
To the delight of investors across the cryptosphere, the price of bitcoin (BTC) has rallied over 53% since its low of US$15,476 (£12,519) in November. Now trading around US$23,000, there’s much talk that the bottom has finally been reached for the leading cryptocurrency after a year of painful decline – in November 2021, the price […]
