“The UK property market has been seriously dysfunctional for some time”. This was the attention-grabbing assertion made by InvestSure chief executive officer (CEO), Janine Lewis, upon the launch of the new online financing platform earlier this week.
3 min read · 21 April 2016
By Al Barbarino For many of us who grew up in suburban America, the local shopping mall conjures nostalgic thoughts of childhood. The Camillus Mall in the suburbs of Syracuse, New York had one of those centerpiece water fountains filled with loads of coins. I remember gazing into its shallow pools as a kid, the coins glistening underwater, thinking […]
3 min read · 31 March 2016
By Justin Slaughter A well paid tech workforce streaming in from neighboring Silicon Valley is the latest Gold Rush to hit the city of San Francisco. With companies like Facebook, Google and Apple sponsoring private luxury coach buses that shuttle their employees down Highway 101 to work and back, thousands of tech workers are shunning […]
3 min read · 24 March 2016
There’s nothing quite like MIPIM. On Tuesday, with the sun beating down and the tempo sedate, the property extravaganza in Cannes was keeping the punters calm and happy. On Wednesday, as the wind howled and rain lashed anyone brave enough to venture outside the packed Palais des Festivals ‘bunker’, the whole shebang suddenly seemed more challenging […]
3 min read · 17 March 2016
Just three weeks into the campaign leading up to the 23 June referendum which will decide whether or not the UK is headed for Brexit, it’s clear that the uncertainty is already affecting UK real estate lending.
3 min read · 10 March 2016
Last week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) applied the paddles to the flat-lining European CMBS market. The investment bank launched a deal which has the potential to get the blood pumping around Europe’s commercial mortgage securitisation market once again. There haven’t been many signs of life since last September, when volatility in the capital […]
3 min read · 03 March 2016
We are a society of extremes: First, last. Best, worst. Largest, smallest. In finance — and financial journalism — it’s easy to cling to them. Who isn’t a sap for a story about the tallest building or the largest deal. But numbers that may seem like the best, or the worst, don’t always tell the […]
3 min read · 25 February 2016
