All articles by Matthew Oakeshott
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InsightHow to make the most of changes in the property world
At 6.5%, property yields are the same today as ten years ago but long-term gilt yields are down from 4.5%, index-linked gilt yields are -0.5% against +1.5% and inflation is 1.5% against 3.5%.
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InsightLet us not take the benefits of union for granted
I’ve just been to Rio - to buy a property. Helping my son, who works there, buy a flat located a two-minute flip flop-clad walk from Copacabana Beach, to be precise.
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InsightMake pension tax breaks fair for millions, not millionaires
Like all revolutions, the savings revolution in last week’s Budget presents great opportunities and great danger. It is a “Big Bang” for fund management, but could be a big tax hand-out for the better-off.
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InsightHelp to Buy without ‘help to build’ is potty policy
House prices are as unaffordably high as at the top of the 2007 boom across wide swathes of southern England, not just Bankerland in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill.
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InsightWe must build our way out of this housing crisis
House prices are too high all over Britain and the government’s Help to Buy could soon become “Help to Boom and Bust” - as house prices surge again in the south of England.
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InsightStagflation raises spectre of 1981 — but this time opportunity knocks
No growth plus inflation: can property perform now?
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It’s great to be back in the market as a buyer
The investor’s chronicle, with Lord Oakeshott anaging director of OLIM
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Message to LandSecs: don’t quit while you are ahead
The investor’s chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott
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Come on Gordon, do your bit to set small business free
The investor’s chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott
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InsightThe government needs to develop business sense
The investor's chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott
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REITs are the key to preventing a SIPPs scandal
The investor’s chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott
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Gordon, you don’t know what you’re doing...
The investor’s chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott
