All articles by Nigel Hugill
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InsightWhat happens next? Nigel Hugill’s reforecast for 2020 and beyond
In the second in our three-part series, figures from the residential and property finance sectors share their outlooks for a post-lockdown world.
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InsightIt’s all to play for following Osborne’s Budget bombshell
We had become accustomed to the meat of previous Budgets being served on the respective plates of the two coalition partners, each fervently briefing ahead of the main course to claim culinary proprietorship of any remotely popular morsel.
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InsightCarney’s back on track after U-turn on Funding for Lending
What the Bank of England has recognised is that the much bigger issue threatening maintained economic momentum
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InsightFrom penicillin to Prozac: Help to Buy is just a political prescription
Considerable coverage in this issue of Property Week is given over to a now apparently broadening asset recovery. The surprise would be if it were otherwise.
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InsightDivergent economy will take political centre stage
The famously inscrutable outgoing governor of the Bank of England broke into a close approximation of a public grin last month.
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InsightIt’s going to take more than pop-up shops for high streets to fight back
Regular visitors to Eland House, home of the Communities and Local Government department, will have watched in winter wonderment at the ground-floor conversion that took place just before Christmas.
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InsightDon’t lose sleep over IMF scepticism — our ‘aspiration nation’ keeps us afloat
Growth figures for the UK economy published last Thursday by the Office for National Statistics estimated that GDP in the three months to September was up a whole 1% on the jubilee public holiday-depressed previous quarter.
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InsightShedding light on why Toronto and Aberdeen are recession-proof
Urban theorist and cartographic superstar, Richard Florida, delivered a characteristically bravura speech as he tripped through London via the ULI Europe Trends Conference on 30 May.
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InsightTale of 2012 cities: prosperity fuelled by local industry, not geography
Property outputs and values reflect the state of their economic environment. Cyclical overproduction threatens values, while restrictive barriers such as conservation listings or planning limitations could combine to push the other way. But there is no escaping the fundamentals.“It’s the economy, stupid” — that is what drives the health and ...
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InsightOwnership issues put Stamford Bridge in troubled water
It seems that there are some things that even Roman Abramovich cannot buy — at least for now.
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InsightHousebuilding can nurse economy through recovery
When all else fails in politics, try to lower voter expectations
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InsightPlanners need to confront the bear necessities, says Nigel Hugill
An economist in the wilderness appears undaunted by an approaching bear…
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InsightCameron and Clegg need stamina for ’ideas sex’ to bear fruit, says Nigel Hugill
I have just finished reading an elegantly uplifting gloom buster from eminent zoologist and practical scientist Matt Ridley.
