The developers jumping on the microbrewery bandwagon

Craft beer, fixed-gear bikes, beards and flat whites. All have become a byword for hipsters in recent years. Gentrifiers drawn to working-class, inner-city areas close to jobs that didn’t even exist 10-15 years ago. Another thing that was almost non-existent in central London 10 years ago was the microbrewery. Back in 2010, the capital was […]

Why we need to predict the next real estate crash

COMMENT: The quarterly publication of an adjusted market value of UK “all property” is the first real attempt at introducing a mainstream metric that can be used to assess the likelihood of a UK commercial real estate market crash, says Rupert Clarke, chair of the PIA debt group and managing partner at Lipton Rogers.