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Investor’s Notebook

The latest thoughts from the buy side of real estate investment

Investor's Notebook

The art of placemaking

The art of placemaking

Placemaking is emerging as an innovative concept in real estate capturing the attention of players across the real estate spectrum. Its power to transform forgotten spaces into vibrant experiences holds immense potential. Over the last 15 years, I have had the pleasure to work and research the...

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Prudent?

Prudent?

Since the financial crisis in 2008, interest rates have been low and borrowing costs for commercial property similarly low.  With such low rates, relatively high yields...

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Investor's Notebook

How to  win awards

How to win awards

Awards are show business, mining a deep human need or peer approval. Formed and shaped for profit by producers. Staged and fronted by directors nurturing sector nabobs. Marketed...

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Desert Diary 7

Desert Diary 7

The new decade that was ushered in by the usual dazzling Burj Khalifa fireworks provoked some reflection on my part, for it was 10 years ago this year that I made the move to the...

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Investor's Notebook

Cautiously optimistic?

Cautiously optimistic?

A famous quotation, probably erroneously dedicated to the financier J. P. Morgan, is that, when asked for an outlook on the stock market, he replied, “it will...

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Waiting for the drop

Waiting for the drop

Watch share prices, brace for a bang. “If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. - Richard Dawkins  Real estate currently beats any but the riskiest...

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