The Nature of Property Cycles was a talk given by Dr Robin Goodchild Dr Robin Goodchild, LaSalle Investment Management’s International Director, Global Research & Strategy at a joint meeting of CULS, IPF and SPR. He is a past president of both CULS and SPR as well as having been an active member of the IPF for over 25 years including chairing the Residential Special Interest Group. He joined LaSalle in 1997 as European Research Director and he describes his job as knowing where the property markets of the UK and Europe are headed. Over his professional career, which began in 1971, he has developed a deep understanding of property cycles which includes a book chapter on the topic in the latest edition of ‘Commercial Mortgage Loans and CMBS: developments in the European Market‘.*
Robin presented his ideas on property cycles and these were discussed with two experts
Dr Richard Barras, the founder of Property Market Analysis, an Honorary Fellow of SPR, and author of several books on property cycles including ‘Building Cycles – Growth & Instability’ (2009) and ‘A Wealth of Buildings. Marking the Rhythm of English History’ (2016)
Peter Denton, Group Finance Director, The Hyde Group and an IPF member, has 23 years of pan European real estate sector experience as an investment partner at Starwood Capital and, prior to that, EMEA property investment banking at BNP Paribas, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Eurohypo and WestImmo.
The event was chaired by Robert Peto, a past president of both RICS and CULS, who retired at the end of 2015 from DTZ after a 45 year career. He is best known as a valuation expert, but has been a fund manager since 1993 with DTZ Investors. He is an out-spoken market commentator.
This is the link to the film of the event hosted by Youtube: https://youtu.be/_C-HMht_2cw
*Petersen, Andrew V. (2016) Commercial Mortgage Loans and CMBS: Developments in the European Market Third Edition, Sweet & Maxwell, London
