Touching base on what some people call the essence of the current crisis in real estate: valuations. Many property companies … More
Author: Rutger Nooij
Cement versus Sentiment – the way ahead
This month’s EPRA Newsletter includes an interesting essay by Anatole Kaletsky, economic commentator of The Times of London, where he … More
RICS European Housing Review
The RICS recently published their annual European Housing Review (2009 edition). A must-read for every real estate professional engaged in residential properties … More
Boris Johnson attracting foreign investors…
Following up on a previous post: Welcome to the real world: UK real estate Boris Johnson is attracting foreign investors … More
Focussing on bricks and mortar
Dutch real estate bank FGH published their annual real estate report (“vastgoedbericht”), with a message that, by now, every real estate … More
Housing prices UK and China declining
What goes up, must come down. What everybody fears with respect to home sales and home prices, has now been … More
Propertyshares NAV Premium / Discount
source: http://www.reita.org So, the times of property shares trading at discounts have returned. And how! Looking at the discounts Reita calculates … More
Investors shift focus from capital to rental values
Apparently, real estate investors finally get some sense of reality, when their focus shifts to the main driver of the property … More
Welcome to the real world: UK real estate
The UK property market may be seen as the market with the best pricing in the world today. The speed … More
Real Estate Rollercoaster
US Home prices, adjusted for inflation, 1890-2007 … plotted to a rollercoaser… enjoy! Too bad this rides ends in 2007. … More
Dubai on the rocks
Nothwithstanding the fact that more than half of the projects in Dubai have been put on ice… UAE. More than … More
Animal Spirits
A quick link to an interesting article by Robert Shiller: A failure to control the animal spirits, commenting on the … More
On A Peppercorn 