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The future of retail

by The Editor | Dec 12, 2017 | Technology

Automation, customisation and big data are some of the trends expected to change the retail industry and the way consumers shop in the future. Recently CBRE, the world’s leading real estate services firm and a Partner of The Property Chronicle, has revealed a series...

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,...

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...

The View from Berkeley Square

by Robert Fowlds | Aug 14, 2017 | Investor's Notebook

Continental carry trade The big takeaway from the interim results season is the recovery in continental property markets. It’s been a decade since the listed sector in Europe signalled such a positive outlook in spite of some mixed performances in retail. Offices and...

The View from Berkeley Square

by Robert Fowlds | May 19, 2017 | Investor's Notebook

Chaos in Washington and dollar weakness, combined with the Macron win, has had a major impact on markets. For a sterling investor, the global real estate sector is flat YTD, but the Americas is down 6% compared to Europe up over 8% including the UK up c. 7%. But the...