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It’s May and the sun is out, at least where I am right now, and my guess is plenty of people in the Northern Hemisphere are getting ready for summer: thinking about and planning holidays, considering where to stay and what to stay in, sizing up everything from the...

Looking through the recent newsletters posted on Shepherd Cox, it occurred to me that something I’d never once talked about is Airbnb. Six letters that pack a whole punch of meaning, particularly if you operate in the hotel business, which I do. So I wanted to wax...

Unless you’ve had your head buried in a pile of cash for the last forty years, you almost certainly know the Abba song, Money, Money, Money. Ironically, if you read the lyrics, if anybody knew about money and all of its ‘amusing’ possibilities, the Swedish band...

I used to invest in houses. Quite a lot of them—for myself and for other people who liked my business model and were keen on securing a passive income with excellent returns. And one of the things that I always said (and the reason I invested) is that property prices...

Confession time: a Grinch bemoaned to me recently that I always talk about the same things every month—I bash buy-to-let, repeatedly saying that it’s going to hell in a handbag, and I bang on about hotel investments being the best thing since the discovery of...

There’s a huge challenge facing anybody who wants to talk about today’s economy without using certain phrases loaded with meaning — the first an infuriating portmanteau we’re sick to the back teeth of hearing; the second, which more by accident than design alliterates...

It’s been said that money is a fiction. The way central banks have been allowed to take control of global economies and scale up on output, aka QE, would suggest that there is a grain of truth to this idea. And now they’re tapering the flow. That’s right, the cash tap...

In the last newsletter I talked about being decisive, but more importantly when it comes to property investments, about being specific. And I also touched upon the nature of deals and why it’s best to walk away from something that seems flawed. I mean, you wouldn’t...

While property investing across the domestic market has lost its shimmer of allure, there’s little point in denying that property, if you know where to look, what to buy, and how to fashion the best deals, is still head and shoulders above many of the other less...