

An understanding of people is the answer to this question. It’s funny how the past two years have changed our perception of life. Although this article is about the pricing of rents and capital values of property assets, first I’m going to talk about the everyday...
Property investment: is it still worth it?

An open letter to a candidate for political office
Ms Shrina Kurani, On 30 October I received from you a blast email requesting that I contribute to your political campaign. For reasons explained below, I’ll not do so. (The one and only time that I contributed money to a candidate for political office was 25...
An open letter to a candidate for political office

Intergenerational diversity and the office workforce
In this era of major technological advancements, the Covid-19 pandemic has supercharged changes, especially in the way we communicate and work. Organisations are changing rapidly to a flexible digital office environment. While the talk is prominently about co-working...
Intergenerational diversity and the office workforce

America’s great electric vehicle revolution is underway
Originally published August 2021. Why the retail real estate world should take note. In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway famously writes, “‘How did you go bankrupt?’ ‘Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.’” The quote expertly captures the idea that humans in...
America’s great electric vehicle revolution is underway

Asia, not the US, is the main source of global warming
President Biden once hoped to attend the 31 October start of the Glasgow UN Climate Conference having signed a massive new package of climate-related spending. A New York Times analysis undertaken by Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano estimated that...
Asia, not the US, is the main source of global warming