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Our professorial contributors illuminate the latest academic research in real estate and economic policy

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Global Inflation Heat Maps October/November 2023
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by Peter Warburton | Mar 21, 2024

This article is part of our Premium Content Stream, a new Property Chronicle initiative to bring you additional high quality analysis of multiple asset classes. It is currently available for all to read but shortly we will be introducing a modest monthly subscription to access this and new...

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An open letter to a candidate for political office

by Donald J Boudreaux | Nov 11, 2021

Ms Shrina Kurani, On 30 October I received from you a blast email requesting that I contribute to your political campaign. For reasons explained below, I’ll not do so. (The...

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Asia, not the US, is the main source of global warming

by Alan Reynolds | Nov 9, 2021

President Biden once hoped to attend the 31 October start of the Glasgow UN Climate Conference having signed a massive new package of climate-related spending. A New York...

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Musk v Bezos: real rivals or fake feud?

by Ben Little | Nov 4, 2021

Our research gives a clue. Flick through a news feed on your phone and you are likely to scroll across an article discussing the heated rivalries of the new space...

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Integrated farming

by John Moverley | Nov 2, 2021

A new approach to sustainable food production. As the saying goes, we live in interesting times. The pandemic has impacted upon all our lives, and will shape our futures and...

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A tale of two pizzas: are property values really yours to keep?

by Joakim Book | Oct 28, 2021

Spoiler: No, they’re not. However much we love our homes and the dollar figures that realtors assign to them, those values are not ours until the day we sell. But let’s...

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Newcastle United

by Christina Philippoiu | Oct 18, 2021

Buying a football club can still be lucrative – with the right business tactics. Many Newcastle United fans cheered the announcement on 7 October that their club had finally...

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Tough times for property investors

by Andrew Baum | Oct 14, 2021

Industrial/residential is the new office/retail. In 1991, 37% of the UK institutional property market measured by IPD was retail; by 2001 this had risen to over 45%. In...