A growing economy is good, but there is considerable scope for error

11 July 14

When I wrote my first column for Property Week early in 2010 I noted that the depreciation of sterling had turned the UK into a bargain basement for global capital.

Is disaster nigh? Watch the central banks for some important clues

13 June 14

Equity markets have been hitting new peaks. Credit markets are overheating.

Credit markets are heating up again, but the next crisis is some way off

2 May 14

Beware the credit cycle was one of the key lessons of the financial crisis that began with the great credit crunch in July 2007. So it is worth noting that a growing number of market analysts are beginning to worry about signs of overheating in global credit markets. Does this…

British are not as obsessed with home ownership as once thought

4 April 14

Why are the British so obsessed with home ownership? The short answer is that we are not quite as obsessed as we sometimes think.

John Plender - Senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times

What will constitute a ‘normal’ bank rate when the economy is out of the woods?

7 March 14

To many real estate professionals the property business is all about land, bricks and mortar.

Holes in MINTs economies send investors running to first world

7 February 14

For two centuries from the start of the industrial revolution, capital habitually flowed out of developed countries to the less developed parts of the world to finance infrastructure, utilities and other fixed capital investment.

The 2013 numbers are up: and show property is a class asset

17 January 14

Global equity investors ended 2013 $7.96 trillion richer than at the start of the year, say analysts at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Tapering worries aside, property market is in good health for 2014

13 December 13

Global markets look set for a great start to 2014.

Global property values are still measured by US fiscal yardstick

8 November 13

Whether you look at UK gilts, mortgages or commercial property, both the basis of valuation and the cost of borrowing are dictated less by financial conditions in Britain than by the yield on US treasuries.