Commercial investment

"Higher education should be at the centre of the modern mixed-use environment"

"The opportunity offered to universities by the rise of the sharing economy is considerable"

"The built environment accounts for 41% of all global energy usage, 40% of natural resource usage and 38% of all CO2 emissions"

"Seniors housing on or close to educational campuses offers a wide variety of benefits to both the university and the local community"

"The retrenchment to core destination cities seen last year will continue in 2019. Smaller, emerging and underserved destination cities will prove attractive as and when specific opportunities arise"

"While new openings declined last year this was largely at the expense of smaller independent brands as the top three luxury houses, LVMH, Kering, Richemont all increased new store openings globally in 2018"

"Luxury spending globally increased 6% in 2018 according to Bain & Company, with Europe accounting for a third of sales, with forecasts pointing to further growth of between 3–5% per annum to 2025"

"Of the 26 global luxury locations tracked by Savills over a third reported year-on-year growth in 2018 with 50% maintaining headline rents."