All articles by Rupert Clarke
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InsightHow beach body ready are you?
The next major end-of-cycle crash in commercial property values will almost certainly not happen for some time. But if I am wrong and the crash is imminent, the way the market is behaving is very definitely different this time.
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InsightReal innovation is needed to meet retail market challenges
I recently read a fascinating article on the major challenges faced by retailers. The central theme was that retailers need to innovate or fail. However, while many retailers claim to be innovating, the majority of corporate retailer innovation is actually iteration.
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InsightThe end of boom and bust – sounds too good to be true?
Sorry to disappoint you, but the objective of the Property Industry Alliance (PIA) Long-term Value paper is not “to end property booms and busts”.
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InsightWhy we should be celebrating 22 as a new tower for the City... and the city
A 1.4m sq ft speculative office development? Now? In spite of the Brexit vote impact on ‘the City’?
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InsightLink lending to long-term valuation measure and boom and bust could become a thing of the past
In this troubled world, there are far bigger challenges to be tackled than worrying about lending-driven real estate crises.
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InsightVolumes and values – a London bubble ready to burst?
The spectre of a London real estate investment bubble and bust scenario.
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InsightOpinion: The challenge is to avoid future lending-driven busts
The holidays are over and now we have the three-month dash for deals before the onslaught of December parties. Alongside the imperative to make hay while the sun shines, what else appears in our back to work in-tray?
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InsightSelf-regulation needed for investment world
In a world of increasing regulatory oversight, corporate governance and compliance officers, the commercial property investment market basks in its own micro-climate. It’s an oasis of free trade, largely unburdened by multi-layered rules, regulations and box ticking — regimes that are all too familiar to those active in the mainstream ...
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InsightHelp to Buy: beware a 1980s-style boom and bust
While government policies are almost universally well intentioned, often not only do they struggle to deliver the desired social or market improvement, they sometimes create a whole raft of unintended consequences.
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InsightProperty returns: not stellar but still better than bonds and equities
In spite of myriad economic and financial challenges, UK commercial property seems to be at the right stage in its cycle and appears to be relatively defensive, especially when compared with the main asset classes with which it competes for investor capital.
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InsightPrivate equity’s 10% target: why something’s got to give
At times of extreme distress, the investment market becomes illiquid.
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InsightLet’s get real: build to rent is best way to combat housing shortage
There are changes afoot in the residential investment market — a sector that up until now has been almost non-existent.
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InsightBearish reports confirm grisly truth of retail property’s endangered status
Towards the end of 2012, there was a notable increase in the number of very bearish retail property research reports.
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NewsInvestors throw in their hand — and blame their fund manager
The unravelling of the German open-ended fund sector has been relatively dramatic. Two separate €6bn funds closed within three weeks of each other, showing investors and fund managers are clearly not happy.
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InsightTen commandments for property lenders
The case for being a real estate lender today is spectacularly compelling
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InsightMismatch mayhem is putting property recovery in peril
The spotlight that is being turned on the real estate lending gap is welcome and essential. Although some of the analysis and commentary seems somewhat optimistic, this is perhaps more a product of wishful thinking than complacency.
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