19 December 2018
Investing
The good, the bad and the rugby – 2019 real estate outlook
As a keen follower of rugby union, it was tempting when thinking about the year ahead to try and predict […]
19 December 2018
14 December 2018
Investing
What’s holding back the buy-back?
A number of public real-estate companies across the world find themselves with large amounts of cash that has been difficult […]
21 November 2018
Investing
Real estate offers investors liquidity benefits in capricious times
Demand for physical property has shown little sign of diminishing in 2018 despite interest rates rising in the US and […]
03 October 2018
Investing
Trade, Turkey, Trump – real estate’s home bias helped it survive the summer twitterstorm
The summer saw a host of (political) headlines with the potential to create significant volatility in global stock markets, but […]
04 September 2018
Investing
The M&A splurge continues – Buffett, feast or frenzy?
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the listed equity markets have a chequered past, particularly when one publicly quoted company takes […]
17 July 2018
Investing
‘Male, pale and stale’ – REIT boards and gender diversity
At the recent REIT week[1] in New York, the corridor chatter mostly centred on shop talk such as the search […]
14 June 2018
Investing
Rethinking the workplace – Making offices matter more for millennials
The last decade has brought substantial secular changes that have upended office markets across the world: the digital economy has […]
03 May 2018
Investing
Passports, prosperity and UK property post Brexit
As the UK prepares to leave the EU, the lack of clarity on how the split-up will work confounds the […]
03 April 2018
Investing
The growing options for investing in rented housing
The shortage of housing to both buy and rent in the Netherlands has attracted a lot of media attention since […]
08 March 2018
Investing
“Data is the new black?” Big data = big opportunities, in real estate too
As someone who began his career analysing data for the UK government back in the last century, I never expected […]
09 February 2018
Investing
Real estate, regrets and the lessons of liquidity
One thing I can safely predict for 2018 is that most of us are going to make at least one […]
17 January 2018
Investing
US real estate – go south young man!
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you” This quote has been attributed to […]
09 October 2017
Markets and central banks
The public markets and European residential real estate
Rapid demographic change, the desire to live in city centres, the rising cost of housing together with an inexorably changing […]
18 August 2017
Markets and central banks
How big an influence does central bank policy have on listed real estate?
The performance of global listed real estate markets will be sensitive to how central banks behave over the next few […]
02 May 2016
Markets and central banks
Listed real estate: overcoming some of the liquidity constraints of property ownership
These may be exhilarating times for UK political commentators, but the uncertainty generated by the forthcoming “Brexit” referendum on UK […]
