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I recently presented at the 2017 Q Group colloquium on You can apply rigorous analytics to the real estate asset class (it doesn’t have to be guesswork and slick salesmanship) I want to help people see that the real estate asset class can be treated as an investment, rather than speculation. In my view, buying one house, or even a handful, isn’t investing, it is speculating. However, saying that, I do know you can treat real estate as an investment....

Disasters happen to people The recent Cyclone Debbie was a disaster. People were hurt and killed. The psychological impact is, and will be, dreadful. I’m not going to talk about the human impact - only the economics. I could not do justice to the people involved. I’d suggest a visit to the Red Cross or similar organisation to help those impacted. Disasters are “News” The Cyclone Debbie disaster, naturally, made news worldwide (BBC, CNN, Guardian, NY Times) and of course real estate prices started getting discussed....

I’m excited to be presenting this year at The Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance Inc. (also known as the Q Group) colloquium. It’s being held on Thursday, July 20. I’ll be presenting on You can apply rigorous analytics to the real estate asset class (it doesn’t have to be guesswork and slick salesmanship) The Q Group website is a good starting point to find out about the group....

The Australian media seems to be in love with talking about real estate. In particular bubbles, and (even though they don’t use the term) forecasts. ...