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May 12, 2023

How to Build a World-Class Economy…It takes more than bottles and bills

Earlier this year (March, to be precise), Narendra Modi took centre stage in a Webinar to address issues of public infrastructure on the ...

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May 12, 2023

Tangled up Together…But Indian Real Estate is still in a Class of its Own

Global Markets are so tangled up these days: worldwide shortages of lithium carbonate have created a need for semiconductor chips, and ...

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May 12, 2023

Getting Things Right Second Time Round…India’s Real Estate Markets are unshackled from the past

A surgeon friend told me that the most powerful tool known to modern medicine is the “retrospectoscope”: hypothetically taking you back in ...

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April 27, 2023

New Age Infrastructure for a Better Connected Planet…India has the ambition to make it work

We hear so much about Public Infrastructure Projects these days, but why do they matter, and what should we look out for? Let me offer you ...

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January 18, 2023

Letting some air out of the property balloon…But let’s not get carried away while we do it

According to the Halifax (and they should know), UK house prices fell for the fourth month in a row last month: hard on the heels of a 2.4% ...

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November 9, 2022

Clown time is over…But what’s next for UK infrastructure?

Spare a thought for Jeremy Hunt, increasingly beleaguered Chancellor of the UK Exchequer: an atavistic Dickensian dad forced to choose ...

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August 24, 2022

Joining the dots on FDI…Indian Real Estate has rich pickings

Just ask Vladimir Putin, no modern economy can survive in a vacuum: the world is too closely connected, too tangled up and interdependent, ...

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August 24, 2022

Charting a Steady Course…Stability is the Guiding Star for Indian Real Estate

If, like most of us, you’re still struggling to chart a course through an uncertain future, the last thing you need, the very last thing, ...

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August 24, 2022

Take a Bow Ms Sitharaman… A timely boost for Indian Real Estate

For as long as COVID has maintained its icy grip on real estate markets, India’s increasingly middle class, increasingly urbanised ...

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August 24, 2022

It doesn’t have to be this way…waking up to ESG

With all the hype and hoopla of COP26, we’ve heard a lot recently about sustainability, and quite right too you might say: but what does it ...

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August 24, 2022

A time to build and buy... Indian Real Estate is facing a perfect storm of opportunity

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck: which is good news if you’re looking for a duck. And the same ...

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August 24, 2022

INDIAN REAL ESTATE AND HABITAT HOME FURNISHINGS

Nirmala Sitharaman must have been having a bleak Christmas: selling home furnishings at Habitat on Regent Street and this was 1990, London ...

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August 12, 2022

Affordable housing matters…Managed delivery has the answers for India

Relatively few people in India, in fact just 30%, rent their properties, compared with close to 40% in the United States, and 43% in ...

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August 12, 2022

A Highway to Prosperity…Indian Infrastructure hasn’t gone away…its stronger than ever

Macroeconomic policy is all about joining the dots: matching suppliers with consumers, employers with workers, and resources to need. And ...

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August 12, 2022

Getting smarter to beat a growing crisis... Homelessness is all about time

Across the Globe last month 244,358 people died within a week of testing positive for COVID 19, and to meet that sad litany of anguish, ...

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August 12, 2022

It's not just about Money... Property Markets have deeper roots

This is a true story: a few years ago, well twenty four in fact (I’m getting on), FedEx delivered a slender A4 package to my house. It ...

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August 12, 2022

Reading between the Lines...Rail Infrastructure and Indian Real Estate

In 1843 the Governor General of the East India Company had a bright idea: inspirational leader as we was of the blue-coated band of thugs ...

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August 12, 2022

Building up Demand by Building Back Strong: How Indian Real Estate is Planning for a Post COVID Future

Minute by minute, day by day, we’ll all end up living in the future: and no matter how hard and painful the present might be, we can’t ...

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August 11, 2022

COMPARED WITH WHAT?… CONSOLIDATION COUNTS IN INDIAN REAL ESTATE

Compared with the same period in 2019, Real Estate sales fell globally in the last quarter by 80%: but the clue’s in the question, the rate ...

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