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The hidden leverage in the UK’s commercial property sector

Fitch points out an intriguing development in the market.

By: Thomas Hale

Climate change: the CMBS angle

When the levee breaks.

By: Jamie Powell

Structured finance and the slow death of retail

Three retail property deals have defaulted since the start of 2018.

By: Thomas Hale

Oxford & Legal & General, the real estate play

  1. Shut down the internet, student housing edition
  2. The private education risk premium
  3. University debts and “restrictive” tuition fees
  4. Why are private school fees so high?
  5. A Plymouth student property proposition
  6. Educational exports: the story so far
  7. How Lloyds got burnt by a for-profit education deal
  8. A casualty in the education marketplace
  9. Connecting an Australian private equity buyout to Swansea University
  10. How a £100m student accommodation scheme went wrong
  11. Alpha Plus is still losing money
  12. Students as a commodity, Sino-US trade war edition
  13. What the bond market thinks about the prospect of a university crisis
  14. How the forces of finance fund MBAs
  15. Introducing the shadow education sector
  16. Why US investors are betting on European student accommodation
  17. The Alpha Plus pension problem
  18. The rise of educational forgery
  19. For sale: one luxury Georgian townhouse
  20. Canada's educational exposure to China

A £4bn partnership to build thousands of homes.

By: Thomas Hale

WeWork: leaser of last resort

How real-estate investors are pinning their hopes on WeWork, Birmingham edition.

By: Jamie Powell

Why US investors are betting on European student accommodation

  1. Shut down the internet, student housing edition
  2. The private education risk premium
  3. University debts and “restrictive” tuition fees
  4. Why are private school fees so high?
  5. A Plymouth student property proposition
  6. Educational exports: the story so far
  7. How Lloyds got burnt by a for-profit education deal
  8. A casualty in the education marketplace
  9. Connecting an Australian private equity buyout to Swansea University
  10. How a £100m student accommodation scheme went wrong
  11. Oxford & Legal & General, the real estate play
  12. Alpha Plus is still losing money
  13. Students as a commodity, Sino-US trade war edition
  14. What the bond market thinks about the prospect of a university crisis
  15. How the forces of finance fund MBAs
  16. Introducing the shadow education sector
  17. The Alpha Plus pension problem
  18. The rise of educational forgery
  19. For sale: one luxury Georgian townhouse
  20. Canada's educational exposure to China

If you build it, they will come.

By: Thomas Hale

Splashing in the WeWork waterfall

Splashing in the WeWork waterfall

More community-adjusted ebitda shenanigans.

By: Jamie Powell

Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled

  1. Are banks really magic money trees?
  2. Will Lagarde’s sneaky tweet change much? 
  3. Can we all calm down about Apple Card’s “gender bias”
  4. UBS’ billionaire boondoggle 
  5. When fast fashion jumps on the eco-wagon
  6. GenX will set central banks’ climate response
  7. The stablecoin anathema 
  8. Masters of the universe, don’t be scared of Elizabeth Warren
  9. Missing: the GE short report
  10. The average lifespan of a fiat currency isn’t 27 years
  11. Lord King: Brexit is no big deal
  12. No inflation? Tell that to my landlord  
  13. Today, in fintech marketing
  14. YouGov’s “blockchain-based” sell-your-own data platform makes no sense (*update) 
  15. Presented without comment
  16. Block.one headed
  17. Ride-sharing apps can’t save the planet (obv)
  18. The WeWork bull case
  19. WeWrite-down
  20. No deal Brexit is not a hedge fund conspiracy
Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled

Primalbase's token-holders are getting a great deal. But they're not getting blockchain.

By: Jemima Kelly

The WeWork Garden of Eden

  1. Are banks really magic money trees?
  2. Will Lagarde’s sneaky tweet change much? 
  3. Can we all calm down about Apple Card’s “gender bias”
  4. UBS’ billionaire boondoggle 
  5. When fast fashion jumps on the eco-wagon
  6. GenX will set central banks’ climate response
  7. The stablecoin anathema 
  8. Masters of the universe, don’t be scared of Elizabeth Warren
  9. Missing: the GE short report
  10. The average lifespan of a fiat currency isn’t 27 years
  11. Lord King: Brexit is no big deal
  12. No inflation? Tell that to my landlord  
  13. Today, in fintech marketing
  14. YouGov’s “blockchain-based” sell-your-own data platform makes no sense (*update) 
  15. Presented without comment
  16. Block.one headed
  17. Ride-sharing apps can’t save the planet (obv)
  18. The WeWork bull case
  19. WeWrite-down
  20. No deal Brexit is not a hedge fund conspiracy
The WeWork Garden of Eden

Tech isolation = no cult.

By: Jemima Kelly and Jamie Powell

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