Creating Better Towns Aide-Memoire
An aide-memoire for Councils and stakeholders in towns which identifies and clearly defines best practice, methodologies, and the key ingredient for Creating Better Towns: a Didobi
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
A review of data across GB town centres 2013-18
A review of economic, retail, and property market data across Great Britain relevant to the function and performance of town centres. Download here.
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
Why Westminster can’t save the UK high street
Guest blog by Bill Grimsey. First appeared in Daily Telegraph on 4th July 2018 when #GrimseyReview2 was launched at the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham, UK. M