News and opinion
Mervyn swerving?
This time last year we reported that the Governor of the Bank of England had said in a speech to the Northern Ireland Chamber of… Read More
Bubble Trouble
In July last year readers of this column may have wondered why we were writing then about CDOs and warning that cheap credit was… Read More
What a performance !
Whilst the rest of us were munching our Easter eggs earlier this year the government was hatching a cunning plan which is about… Read More
Hands across the ocean
21st August IPE real estate reported that the San Francisco City Retirement Fund had invested a substantial sum into the Apollo… Read More
Exactly what does it say on the tin?
Chris Ames (see London – Reuters 01.08.08) asset-backed securities portfolio manager at Schroders has come up with an… Read More
Up-date: It is reported in the Mortgage Finance Gazette...
Up-dateIt is reported in the Mortgage Finance Gazette that the Rothschild family have been working with Lazards on a project to… Read More
Overvaluation in a falling market
We have commented in the past about the damage that some estate agents do in deliberately overvaluing properties to get them on… Read More
Damn lies and statistics
Why isn’t there one definitive set of statistics to judge house prices by? Every month we get bombarded with figures from… Read More
Fear and Greed
Neither of the above is an attractive notion but both can result in irrational behaviour when it comes to Property. Read More