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

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Gold’s Returns: Professor Lizieri responds to the Undercover Investor

by Colin Lizieri | Jan 29, 2024

One of the hardest tasks in education now is to encourage students to develop critical thinking skills when information sources have fragmented, and debate and argument seem to have degenerated into simply restating positions with increasing vehemence. When confronted with a statement, we push...

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Fair and square: why the quadrant model works

by Alex Moss | Feb 23, 2021

This integrated approach offers a handy way to tailor risk/return solutions in the current market. Back in 2003, Susan Hudson-Wilson, Frank Fabozzi and Jacques Gordon wrote an...

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US real estate market cycles, 4Q2020

by Glenn Mueller | Feb 19, 2021

A physical market cycle analysis of four property typesacross 54 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for 4Q2020. GDP ended 2020 at a negative -3.5% annual growth rate, after...

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A Soviet dissident explains American censorship

by Barry Brownstein | Feb 8, 2021

Many consider Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate to be the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century. A searing portrait of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate on its very first page...

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Valuers – are you certain you’re uncertain?

by Nick French | Feb 4, 2021

It’s time to drop the material uncertainty clause for most property valuations – the market has largely adapted to covid now. In late October 2020, I was presenting a paper at an...

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The experiments of youth: unpacking the complexities of China’s real estate market

by Bing Wang | Jan 27, 2021

This article was originally published in Summer 2019. With so many factors to consider, the division between doomsayers and optimists has never been so large. There seems to have...

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From the land of financial bubbles

by Joakim Book | Jan 21, 2021

Everywhere we look, the world looks bubbly. Politically, we may point to the anger bubbling among people who feel like they were robbed of power ‒ or their opponents who...

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Hollywood’s love affair with the architect

by David Shiers | Jan 19, 2021

… and why other property professionals get lumped with the bad guy roles. This article was originally published in April 2019. “I don’t build in order to have clients, I have...

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The prospects for global trade under the new US administration

by Colin Lloyd | Dec 3, 2020

During the last four years, the prospects for freer world trade have been in retreat. Now, with a new broom about to sweep into the White House, there is renewed hope for...