Predicting the outcome of post-Brexit policy from the current negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom is a challenge. As a result, it has been difficult to gauge whether UK real estate — traditionally, a safe sector — will continue to provide the same upside for investors. However, investors can turn to the investment opportunities in continental Europe, where the real estate market has been supported by steady economic growth.

Despite concerns about “forests of cranes” and “toppy” real estate markets, investors continue to see Spain as a good source of opportunity.

According to H1 2017 European hotel investment data from CBRE, Spain was the outstanding market in the first half, seeing a 228 percent year-on-year increase in transaction activity and taking H1 2017 investment volume there to more than €2 billion.

Germany has been a primary market for investors’ capital this year.

Those inhabitants of European cities concerned that their city has not made The Economist Intelligence Unit’s list of the world’s Top 10 most-liveable cities can take some comfort from the fact that the four Australasian cities are in the list.

Back in 1985, I worked in an office that was fuelled by the wonderful fumes of correcting fluid and the flimsiness of carbon paper. One day a rumour began to spread that the company had bought a computer, but that was OK.

AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets’ 20,439-square-metre Assembly London mixed-use urban campus redevelopment in London’s Hammersmith district includes a landmark public art project by Alexander Chinneck that gives the impression that the building is cracking in two.

More than 40 years ago, there was a character on the American comedy show Saturday Night Live, played by comedian, author and improvisational actor Don Novello, called Father Guido Sarducci.