With public/private partnerships expected to do much of the heavy lifting in the UK's levelling-up agenda, and billions pledged this week to boost infrastructure, we spoke to managers of a real estate investment trust that is delivering impact and steady returns in a niche sector. As the pan...
Given where the UK economy currently finds itself, it’s easy to see how the prospect of a house price crash might have quietly crept into more housing market conversations of late. Having recorded the largest month-on-month decrease in UK house prices since the 2008 financial crisis in Novem...
for example, has traveled an economic trajectory over the last half decade that in many respects rivals that of the US in the Great Depression. While the immediate response of policymakers to such a failed live experiment might be to exit the euro, the short run costs of doing so can be ...
if an aspiring entrepreneur has a background in finance, they can move into a sales role at their existing company to learn the soft skills necessary to be successful. Once a diverse skill set is built, it gives an entrepreneur a toolkit that they can rely on when...
The June 2024 production level was much lower than in 2019, before the drop-off in oil production related to Covid-19 restrictions. A longer view strongly suggests that the peak in world oil production took place in 2019. Based on the high prices experienced in the 1970s, many people ...
Yet, COVID-19 has demonstrated that cities (and indeed suburbs and rural communities as well) are still very much vulnerable to airborne contagious diseases. How might this most recent pandemic shape the way we build our homes, communities, and cities over the coming years and decades? To ...
“It was bleak,” says Liam Bailey, global head of research at Knight Frank. “From October 2008, the market pretty much stopped.” When it picked up again about six months later, the prime London market — and other prime markets around the world — started behaving differently to the wa...
At a basic interpretation, per-capita GDP shows how much economic production value can be attributed to each individual citizen. This also translates to a measure of overall national wealth since GDP market value per person also readily serves as a prosperity measure. ...
As interest rates fall, you may notice your savings accounts aren’t returning as much cash as they used to. That’s part of the give-and-take of interest rate changes. “Banks make money by making a spread between what they pay for deposits and what they charge on loans,” Norris say...
Stone and brick walls replaced wooden ones. Stone walls were sturdier and could be built much higher. In some castles, an inner wall was added, forming a concentric ring. This extra wall provided more defenses. The bailey became larger and divided into separate courtyards. ...