Now breath out … What is the impact of further QE likely to be and why is everyone so quiet?
In December 2018 there was barely a mention in the property press of the ECB’s decision to finally halt its’ Quantitative Easing (QE) programme after 5 years. After all, wh
Why Matthew Hopkinson from Didobi created an Aide-Memoire for Towns?
In December 2018 I decided that in order to help Towns better understand the challenges they face there should be something that could be an easy reference document. This came abou
How not to waste £675m and how best to create better towns and High Streets
As you will be aware our towns are facing some of the greatest challenges in terms of their form and function for the 21st Century. These challenges come in many forms be they econ
2019 – a year of fortune and luck?
2019 – The Year of the Pig 2019 will be the Year of the Pig according to the Chinese zodiac and starts on 5th February. It states that it will be a great year to make money a
Core, Core Plus or Core Blimey?
Back in 1981 Tversky and Kahneman published “The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice”. In one experiment students were presented with a disaster scenario and aske
Is the East is evolving faster than the West – the story of Alibaba!
On 1st November I was fortunate to be attend the Alibaba Cloud launch for the UK in London. Essentially this was the ‘switching on’ of two data centres near Woking that
Why are Blackrock’s results are a warning to the real estate investment sector?
The recent headlines in the financial press regarding the sharp fall in the value of Blackrock shares (Blackrock: a vast money machine splutters – FT 19/10/2018) may seem like di
Why academia and business can learn more from each other
On 10th October 2018 at Senate House, University of London, I had the pleasure of assisting in the organisation and chairing of an event titled ‘Data Analytics, Innovation and th
Are your people P.E.O.P.L.E.?
August is for many people a quieter work month or one where you take some well-deserved holiday, farmers excepted! As such I thought I would pen a few words on one of my passions i
Are you and your property investment data fit for purpose?
Time For A Change In Direction? One of the main characteristics of this last real estate investment cycle has been the growth in cross border capital flows that has had a huge impa