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Does specialism in real estate pay?

by Alex Moss | Jun 3, 2024

One of the eternal questions posed in the canon of real estate academic literature is whether specialism pays, and if so, for who? In the case of Principals this would be defined...

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Valuations and Write-Downs: Notes from a recent private meeting of USA real estate investors, thinkers and operators

by Norm Miller | May 24, 2024

Background: The Hoyt Institute is an invite only think tank based in North Palm Beach, Florida, where industry research leaders and academics partake in a few days of in-depth...

The Professor

Britain is not as broken as everyone seems to think

by John Bryson | May 20, 2024

According to many politicians and commentators, the UK is in a very sorry state. Ahead of the general election expected this year, Labour leader Keir Starmer has...

The Professor

Do you want to live forever?

by Norm Miller | May 20, 2024

Two books have come out in the last few years that seem especially relevant to those baby boomers now experiencing a variety of ailments correlated with age: dementia,...

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The wasteful cruelty of “Stakeholder Capital”

by Jeremy Kidd | Apr 29, 2024

Capitalism has raised millions, if not billions, of people out of poverty. It is the greatest engine of human flourishing that has ever existed. It is worth defending, but those...

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How to make money from electric vehicles

by Jay W. Jones and Fred Prassas | Apr 15, 2024

The real estate industry is on the verge of significant infrastructure improvements, driven by the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) and the U.S. government's commitment to phasing...

The Economist

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...

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How to trade house prices

by Norm Miller | Mar 18, 2024

In 1988 Michael Sklarz and I published a paper called “It’s Time for Some Options in Real Estate.” In 1995 David Geltner and I suggested that we needed a fourth asset class,...

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Fighting climate change

by Wesley Paul and Bing Wang | Mar 11, 2024

The politics, economics and tech. We inhabit a world where a distorted perception persists regarding the relationship between the value and expense of initiatives aimed at...