My father called me on my Ericson T10 and asked, “do you know how to use this computer thing with the numbers?” (a fair description of Excel by someone who refuses, even now, to have a mobile phone). It was 1998, I had just started my army service, and my knowledge of computers was limited …
Where is the Cyprus property market heading? I have been asked this question countless times over the past three months, primarily from foreign investors who are trying to appreciate how the rise in inflation, increase in interest rates, and war in Ukraine is affecting local market dynamics. In a nutshell: Things are going to be …
A cat has nine lives. So does the Cyprus property market. Read More »
Moving to a digital world feels unnatural. We can answer any question and have whatever we can think about at our fingertips, often delivered to our doorstep at a moment’s notice. There is limited search (hunt) for products or services, no chance to think things through before making a purchase as you can go from …
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Enabling online mortgages and building insurance WiRE is laying the digital foundations for companies in the banking and financial sectors to develop and deliver products and services tailored to specific properties, individuals, and households. We are building the complete profile of a property, from the type of soil the building has been constructed upon, to …
Inflation is the rate of increase in prices, meaning that you need more money to buy the same product or service. By extent, if your salary remains the same then your purchasing power will decrease as you will be able to buy less with it. Higher inflation tends to have a disproportionate impact on low-income …
When making business decisions, it is best to think of Cyprus as a city rather than a country. A city has its own micro-economic dynamics but is greatly affected by and is linked with what is happening at the country level. However robust the city’s economy may be, it cannot escape from the overall direction …
In 2021, the number of mobile devices operating worldwide stood at almost 15 billion, up from just over 14 billion in the previous year. In total, the number of people that own a smart and feature phone is 7.26 billion, making up 92% of the world’s population. Impressive. Especially when you consider that 92% of …
I don’t need religion for answers. I have Google on my phone Read More »
2021 was a better year than 2020. 2022 will be a better year than 2021. Without context, this is forecasting: stating the obvious when looking back and picking one of three options, up/ down/ the same, when looking forward. As “the same” doesn’t have a ring to it, forecasters add “movement” and they typically predict …
Things to be thankful. Things to carry forward. Things to leave behind. Read More »
We don’t celebrate failure properly. Someone who has failed is someone who has tried, quite unlike those who sit on the sidelines and criticise. Failure has to do with encouraging and celebrating effort rather than outcome, something that is often lost as we tend to focus only on the “winners” in particular industries, sectors, sports, …
I was raised spending a lot of time with my four grandparents and two great-grandmothers. I enjoyed listening to them talk about their youth, of a time where people worked the land, when they were faced with real hardship, and when risk-taking was a matter of survival. My parents are from Limassol; my dad from …
