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Mediation vs settlement in property disputes

by Rebecca Clark | Mar 21, 2018 | The Guest Essay

Why mediate? Won’t a settlement meeting be just as effective? A recent case got me thinking… At the end of last year, I mediated a case between a bank and a married couple who were property developers. It was a sadly all too familiar story of outwardly...

Keep running, Logan

by Spencer Levy | Jan 18, 2018 | Head Of Research

“Liberty, freedom, justice. Now things have changed. Now everything comes to us on a platter. Man’s got nothing left to fight for.” — Logan’s Run In the classic 1967 novel Logan’s Run the world of 2116 is an idyllic place where people have a blissful existence, total...

Putting a price on place

by Zoe Bignell | Oct 24, 2017 | The Guest Essay

Placemaking has long been the buzzword of the real estate world, but aside from the anecdotal benefits it has often been hard to measure the tangible advantages, that is, until now. Looking at 11 global placemaking initiatives in the UK, Australia, USA, Italy,...

Isn’t it time residential agents fought back?

by Andrew Baum | Oct 11, 2017 | The Professor

According to Savills, 2016 and the World Bank, the global real estate market is worth $217tr, 75% of which is residential property. Annual real estate trading has averaged $683bn annually since 2007 and reached $900bn in 2015. This represents turnover of around 0.3-4%...

The bullish case for Japan’s undervalued stock market

by Matein Khalid | Sep 11, 2017 | The Macro View

The North Korea crisis has led to a 1000 point decline in the Nikkei. Japan is the cheapest developed world stock market in 2017. Any spasm of risk aversion leads to a rise in the Japanese yen and a correction in its Nikkei Dow averages lower. The Japanese stock...