News and Thoughts
Thoughts on the Real Estate market and beyond.
Happy New Year
09 January 20232023 is shaping to be an interesting year for industrial property, with a potential technical recession looming, and predictions of an increasing OCR leading to even higher interest rates. But against that background we still have extremely low vacancy rates, increasing… Read More
Resilient
13 December 2022It’s a word we are hearing increasingly of late, and will hear more in the future. It’s a word that we often associate with strength. The strength to absorb pressure; or the strength to fight back against adversity. We are going to need plenty of both of these qualities over the… Read More
Marie Kondo and Industrial Buildings
21 November 2022We don’t know if Marie Kondo has written about finding joy in Industrial Buildings. But she could well have. We find the Marie Kondo method applies just as well to the industrial space as it does to decluttering your home.When we set about applying the Expedio philosophy… Read More
It's a tsunami!
07 November 2022Well, maybe not a tsunami. Or perhaps not even a tidal wave. But over the last few weeks we have seen a very large wave of opportunities coming our way.The number of properties being offered to us is probably 5 fold what it was just six weeks ago. Which means that… Read More
Something for Nothing
26 October 2022There is an old saying, that some people know “the price of everything but the value of nothing.” We were reminded of this recently when reading about the numbers of people in our society who have an expectation of being able to get something for nothing. Whether… Read More
Broken Windows 2
28 September 2022In the early 1980’s social scientist James Wilson and criminologist George Kelling first introduced the phrase “Broken Windows” into the public policy lexicon. In a pathbreaking Atlantic Monthly article, Wilson and Kelling pointed out that people were likelier to vandalise a building… Read More
Lessons Learnt
06 September 2022Before becoming involved in the property industry I worked in a number of different industries. From those different experiences (including regrettably a short stint in the public service) I learned a myriad of different lessons.One of the most valuable lessons was… Read More
Proptech
23 August 2022The concept of Proptech (or Property Technology in dinosaur talk) has been increasingly coming to the fore recently. Which has caused us to think about the advantages, improvements and benefits proptech has brought to the industry. And of course those aspects which are not quite… Read More
Who pays for everything we have a "right" to?
02 August 2022Reading the mainstream media can be almost as dangerous as paying attention to social media. Very often discerning truth from fiction is a fraught exercise. And it seems there are plenty in the media ranks who believe that if a story is repeated enough in different forms it will… Read More
Tulip Bulbs Anyone?
28 June 2022Expedio is an industrial property investor. We specialize in industrial property – not residential, retail, office, or any other facet of the property market. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t also study trends in other parts of the wider property market. We have delved… Read More
Greedflation - Is it a thing?
07 June 2022There is no doubt that we are in for a period of inflation. And inflation probably unlike anything we have seen since the 1970s. And that means there are many people in the workforce today who have never experienced real inflation. Essentially inflation is a loss of purchasing… Read More
Yields Vs Interest Rates
31 May 2022It has been a constant over the past few years that yields would track interest rates. As interest rates reduced – so too did yields compress. But yields were always a couple of percentage points above interest rates. Which meant that investors could buy property at a yield higher… Read More
Marketing
10 May 2022Marketing is an interesting (and confusing) topic. There are people who believe (as certain politicians do) that throwing money at something will result in action. Just as those politicians are deluded, so are those who believe marketing is just about spending money. Illustrating… Read More
Going green - Lunn Ave Refurbishment Recycling
01 March 2022This refurbishment included the removal of a well constructed , but not permitted , mezzanine. Rather than just send it all to landfill, we engaged the services of a specialist deconstructor. See their report here for details of how much of the materials they were able to re-use.… Read More
Going green or virtue signalling?
01 March 2022Expedio has just placed our first order for a solar panel installation. Perhaps we could be accused of being a little slow in demonstrating our green credentials. However, we have been known to be a little cynical at times of some of the virtue signalling that goes on around… Read More
This CEO pays new employees $5,000 to quit
07 January 2022This Article is from Fast Company and the original is here This CEO pays new employees $5,000 to quit It might seem counterintuitive,… Read More
Every Child Should Learn About These 50 Cognitive Biases
07 January 2022This Article is from Inc.com and the original is here Elon Musk Thinks Every Child Should Learn About These 50 Cognitive Biases Would the world be more… Read More
It's the Festive Season
02 December 2021For some it may be. But for many the season won’t be very festive at all. Most of those we interact with on a daily basis are involved in commerce. And in those interactions we hear stories of some of the disruptions and hardships which have arisen over the past year. Whilst… Read More