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

Suchit PunnoseMarch 30, 2022

Just ask Vladimir Putin, no modern economy can survive in a vacuum: the world is too closely connected, too tangled up and interdependent, to allow any one country to go it alone. And, especially after the painful isolation of COVID lockdowns, no well managed economy would even think of trying. That’s why the regulation of ...

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

Suchit PunnoseFebruary 23, 2022

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, is instability and uncertainty: such as, for example, inflation rates in the UK, which have veered wildly from 2% to 5.4% over the space of six months. But while property ...

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

Suchit PunnoseFebruary 2, 2022

For as long as COVID has maintained its icy grip on real estate markets, India’s increasingly middle class, increasingly urbanised population responded by tightening their belts, and that in turn caused developers to reduce property prices: offering a dazzling spectrum of attractive deals to maintain sales figures, as well as creating virtual home hunting and ...

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

Suchit PunnoseNovember 17, 2021

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 all mean for Construction? Well, for a start, the Glasgow Conference noted (rightly) that urban infrastructure has historically been responsible for about 40% of global emissions, which is why ...

The birth pangs of progress mean new opportunities for cryptocurrencies

Suchit PunnoseOctober 5, 2021

China banned crypto currency transactions last month, including Bitcoin mining (the energy guzzling process of creating new Bitcoin), and within days the price of Bitcoin fell by $2,000. In itself that’s hardly surprising: China is one of the biggest crypto markets in the world, but the immediate market reaction was still perplexing, because China had ...

Affordable housing matters…Managed delivery has the answers for India

Suchit PunnoseSeptember 29, 2021

Relatively few people in India, in fact just 30%, rent their properties, compared with close to 40% in the United States, and 43% in France. On the other hand, home ownership levels on the subcontinent currently exceed 50%; and for the rest of the population, 15% live with their parents (too often a disguised variant ...

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

Suchit PunnoseSeptember 1, 2021

Macroeconomic policy is all about joining the dots: matching suppliers with consumers, employers with workers, and resources to need. And that, in a nutshell, was what the United Kingdom Government was hoping to do with its HS2, High Speed Rail Programme: manufacturers in Manchester could speed south to customers in London, workers would be able ...

Working Less and Making More…Emerging Technologies in the Post-Covid World

Suchit PunnoseAugust 10, 2021

How times changein 1955 British Ports handled 20% of the World’s shipping trade (19,014,000 tons), with Japan way behind at 3,578,000 tons (3%). But 45 years later the figures had flipped: Japan was handling 13% of the world’s shipping (70,608,752 tons), and Britain had slumped to 3% (at 15,539,475 tons: lower, even in absolute terms, ...

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