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As a professor, I have probably spent a full decade of my life in the classroom trying to explain the concept, the detail, the assumptions and the need for market anchoring in all property valuations. The valuation figure is the end of a process and that figure is determined by the interaction of...
It’s easy to believe that life on Earth is getting ever worse. The media constantly highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions. With a torrent of...
Why it makes sense to have a targeted approach. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is a high priority for real estate investors. Affording significant weight to ESG...
It is interesting, but depressing to me, that the more eminent a college or university is perceived to be, the more outrageous are efforts by administrators to stifle individual...
Is investors’ preference for them warranted? An important issue for investors is that of how to structure their exposure to commercial real estate. A common allocation strategy...
Intelligence agencies are secretive organisations that generate secret products. Their reports come adorned with reminders to maintain discretion: “Top Secret” this, “Sensitive...
Originally published July 2022. The public sector is the largest UK landowner and space occupier, with local authorities owning and managing the majority of the real estate...
Originally published July 2022. It is likely that all readers know that WFH means 'work from home', VR is virtual reality and crypto refers to various crypto currencies like...
John McWhorter has written an important book – a heretical book, really, because in today’s America, black men are anathema if they believe what he believes, or write what he...
Here’s what it revealed about sentience. Originally published June 2022. Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,That machines should e'er surpass our art.We are the masters, them the...