Last year was the year the return to the office ended. Whether you look at surveys of working from home levels or swipes into offices, the trend was flat through the year. Before...
About Chris Urwin
Audio
The PC Podcast: Lessons learnt from a lifetime of forecasting house pricesPremium
In The Property Chronicle’s first podcast, Chris Urwin and Yolande Barnes discuss, amongst other topics, the complexity of real estate forecasting
Head Of Research
From Analysis to Action: The journey from market commentator to investment strategist
If you are a real estate researcher working in the industry for several years, you may wonder how to take your career to the next level. How can you position yourself to go...
Head Of Research
Standing Ovations for Unconventional Losers: What a 4-1 Thrashing Can Teach Real Estate Investors
This article is about a Premier League football game for the ages, the strange case of an unconventional failure it contained, and the lessons it offers for real estate...
The Agent
Living in the vortex of the urban doom loop? Not quite…
"Is New York okay?" That was the refrain I heard repeatedly on a recent trip back to London. Perceptions of New York have become profoundly negative in the wake of COVID-19;...
Golden Oldie
The Search for Expertise: Why Real Estate Investment Managers Need More Than Just Experience
Originally published May 2023. Many use experience and expertise interchangeably, but they are different. While experience comes from exposure to a particular field, expertise...