Purpose: The UK's purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector has seen significant institutional investment in recent decades. This paper unpacks contemporary trends and perspectives on the sector. It questions whether PBSA has moved from being an “alternative” to “mainstream”...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to re-examine currency swaps as an effective hedging technique for individual asset performance in today’s global real estate market, by considering hypothetical prime office investments across six different cities and five currency pairs. The perspective...

The retail market contributes significantly to the British economy, but the niche market of charity retailing within it has seen little attention – a lacuna that this article seeks to address. Charity retailing is a recent phenomenon, emerging after the Second World War. The objective of...

The last three decades have seen substantial change in real estate portfolios of financial institutions. This paper begins by first charting this restructuring of the institutional real estate portfolio between industrial, offices and retail classes over the last thirty years in the UK. This...