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Investor’s Notebook

The latest thoughts from the buy side of real estate investment

Investor's Notebook

Letter From Paris: The Olympic Renaissance of the Champs-Elysées

by Andy Watson | Apr 12, 2024

There is a mythical dimension to the avenue des Champs-Elysées (“The Elysian Fields”) known, proudly, by French people as la plus belle avenue du monde. This August, two Greek myths, Olympism and Elysium unite, briefly, in Paris. According to the International Olympic Committee Charter, “Olympism”...

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The UK Commercial Real Estate Finance Market, Ten Years after Lehman

by Peter Cosmetatos | Aug 3, 2018

Ten years ago, I had just extricated myself from almost a decade as a tax lawyer in the City, mostly advising on structured real estate finance deals, and started work as finance...

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The UAE – Geared to lead

by Mustafa Kheriba | Aug 2, 2018

A global economic crisis, rising regional political tensions, and a dismal outlook to the macro economic stance all make for an exceptionally tumultuous atmosphere to navigate...

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Investing in Polish Commercial Property 2

by Ben Habib | Jun 28, 2018

Since the peak of the property cycle in 2007, First Property Group plc has grown its net asset value at an annualised rate of some 25% per annum and either maintained or...

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The View from Berkeley Square

by Robert Fowlds | Jun 5, 2018

The UK results season for the March year ends has not generated much investor interest - to the extent a frustrated senior equity fund manager confronted me as I walked past...

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Desert Diary Month 4

by Edward Atkinson | May 29, 2018

If your perception of business in the Middle East is one of men in sunglasses discussing arms deals and oil trades, then you’d be wrong. Well, that’s not to say this doesn’t go...

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Investing in Polish Commercial Property 1

by Ben Habib | May 3, 2018

My company, First Property Group plc, is an active investor in Poland, having commenced our operations there shortly after it joined the EU in 2004. Not many investors have...

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Free enterprise is the solution to South Africa’s problems

by Marian L. Tupy | Apr 25, 2018

In 1986, a well-known African-American economist travelled to South Africa for a conference on the role of business in helping to overcome racial divisions in that country. Three...

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Euro property investor – April 2018

by Michael Walton | Apr 19, 2018

I have been active in the European real estate markets for over 30 years with a focus on the more liquid north-western countries. I have worked for agencies (Knight Frank and...

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Desert Diary: Month 3

by Edward Atkinson | Apr 14, 2018

As Sydney Harbour fills up with the tears of lachrymose cricketers, transgressors of a law of the game, rather than of the land, one can’t help but think how hysterical the...