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  • COMMENT: Time to reassess the investment case for Poland and Spain

    Poland and Spain are not the investor darlings portrayed by many property strategists and journalists, argues Nicholas Spiro, partner at London-based investment consultancy Lauressa Advisory. In this commentary, he calls for a reassessment of these markets.

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  • COMMENT: Letter from London

    In his monthly comment on the workings of Europe’s real estate industry, Peter Bill, author of Planet Property and former editor of Estates Gazette, gives a new interpretation to Sir Thomas More’s quote ‘If honour were profitable, everybody would be honourable.’

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  • COMMENT: Property is still delivering for investors - but for how long?

    RICS’ latest market sentiment survey reveals a gap between property markets approaching the end of the cycle, and others in the early phase of an upswing. RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn reads between the lines and signals the risks ahead.

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  • COMMENT: Letter from London

    Columnist and author Peter Bill analyses recent developments at Grainger, the listed UK residential landlord which put its German business up for sale in August and is becoming an attractive prey - particularly among US predators looking to expand in Europe.

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  • COMMENT Market fatigue over Greece does not justify complacency

    Such is the level of market fatigue about the seemingly interminable Greek crisis that investors have become conspicuously insouciant about a possible Grexit, writes Nick Spiro of London-based consultancy Spiro Sovereign Strategy.

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