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The PC Podcast: Real estate lessons on affordability and innovation
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by Chris Urwin | Oct 28, 2024

In this episode of The Property Chronicle Podcast, Chris Urwin sits down with Norm Miller: Housing Affordability Crisis: Is the US really facing a crisis, or are some cities inherently unaffordable? Local Data’s Critical Role: Why hyper-local data is essential for understanding housing costs and...

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Punting on the Ritz

by Peter Bill | Jan 25, 2021

The startling tale of how a lorry-driving conman extracted £1m from a property mogul as a down payment on a top London hotel. To grasp how a bankrupt 49-year-old Yorkshire lorry...

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Beware of negative thinking

by Peter Warburton | Jan 19, 2021

Only in the make-believe world of analytical models can negative nominal interest rates be argued to do any real good. Last October, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of...

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Prop. Notes: Our proprietor ruminates on brushes with two very different billionaires

by Stephen Yorke | Jan 18, 2021

This article was originally published in September 2020. Walter… In 2010 our small fund management business received a call. It was Jason, numbers man to Walter Kwok, the biggest...

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How to get it right with REITs

by David Auerbach and Mary Jensen | Jan 14, 2021

If you plan to play the REITs game next year, here’s what you need to know. “Bad News for REIT Investors” … “Negative Ratings Bias Rises as North American REITs Confront Effects...

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Big themes for 2021

by Tom Duncan | Nov 26, 2020

Each one of these trends is underpinned by a higher weighting afforded to individual needs, preferences and experiences – meaning that real estate developers and landlords can no...

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Global media cities

by Sophie Chick | Nov 23, 2020

The likes of LA, London and Mumbai are being challenged as consumer appetites becomes more global. Media cities are hubs of creativity where films, television, and music are...

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French reconnection, part 2

by Oliver Ash | Nov 16, 2020

In the second of 12 episodes telling the story of his life in property, Oliver Ash recalls how Parisian geography got him all hot and bothered on the way to a job interview. This...

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Heightened investor interest in data centres amid societal changes

by Ed Socia | Nov 12, 2020

As the pandemic disrupted life around the globe, nearly everyone’s routine changed, including the way we communicate with one another and how we send and receive data. With an...

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Ignore journalists – we need to get back to the office

by Savvas Savouri | Nov 2, 2020

One of the loudest and most frequent defences of WFH (aka working from home) is that it is perfectly viable in this ultra tech-age. Perfectly viable that co-workers can connect...