Commercial real estate needs better income data if it is to tap billions of passive capital
Didobi co-founders Matt Richardson and Matthew Hopkinson have founded a new data insight company called Income Analytics that measures and forecasts tenant income risk globally.
Why understanding the sequence of investment returns is so important
For investors, the order in which returns arrive can make the difference between success and failure.
WORDS ARE AS REVEALING IN PROPERTY AS ELSEWHERE
The words we choose are revealing. In an amusement park, small electrically powered cars with rubber fenders all round are driven in an enclosure. Some people call these cars “do
Why we must reflect, re-energise and re-purpose as a society to ensure that the Coronavirus cloud has a silver lining.
Before the news of Covid19 came out of Wuhan, China we had started a new decade full of hope and varying degrees of optimism. The pace of change of the previous decade had been fas
UNSTRUCTURED DATA IS YOUR FRIEND
Data is either structured or unstructured. Structured data is neatly arranged in rows and columns, like a spreadsheet. Unstructured data is messy and disorganised. It shambles towa
What is a typical week for Didobi’s investment market research team?
Stephen Ryan, who leads the Didobi Investment Research team, takes a look at the week ahead and how we support clients in a number of different ways. With the increased velocity of
Is Micro-Living the next small thing?
We move to cities and we live in small groups when we get there. These two trends, urbanisation and smaller households, are contributing to housing shortages in cities across the w
Why we must understand the causes of issues on our high streets before addressing the effects.
Last week the BBC’s investigative journalism programme, Panorama, focussed on the UK High Street. ‘How to save the high street’ visited a number of towns including Stoc
Behavioural Biases In Real Estate Investment
Human psychology can have a big impact on decision-making. We make cognitive errors on a routine basis by using rules of thumb and over-simplifications. We follow stories rather th