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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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Comparable evidence is more than just sales data

by Nick French | Oct 22, 2020

Market transparency determines the relative usefulness of different types of data. The application, veracity and appropriateness of comparable data are not universal. Property...

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Trump mania: why do we care so much about politics?

by Joakim Book | Oct 19, 2020

The morning after Trump was elected, people in my university class were crying. Fair enough, you think: you’ve heard about the emotional fragility of today’s youth, and...

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Valuing REITs in a time of turbulence

by Alex Moss | Oct 12, 2020

Ordinary valuation methods prove inaccurate when the measures they’re based on are in such a state of flux – it’s time to turn to a different methodology. In ordinary...

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Keukentafel economics and the history of British imperialism

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | Oct 8, 2020

I visited South Africa for the first time in September of 2006, thanks to Grietjie Verhoef and a great number of hosts around the country, for nearly two-and-a-half weeks. In...

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Strong performance by logistics – evidence from the Asia-Pacific

by Robbie Lin and Chyi Lin Lee and Graeme Newell | Oct 7, 2020

Industrial and logistics (I&L) REITs in the Pacific Rim played an added-value and strategic role in multi-asset portfolios, according to our new analysis published in the...

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Emerging trends in shopping centre valuations

by Nick French and Lance Mercereau | Oct 6, 2020

Retailing is going through a structural change and asset values are tumbling as the effect of falling rents and a lack of investment appetite feeds through to the market value of...