Brexit benefits of buying British

It sounds like madness, but there is no better time to invest in quality British property companies as shares trade at record discounts

The Ilac Centre in Dublin 1: the share price of its British owner, Hammerson, offers real value at present Picture: Fergal Phillips

We have had a fantastic run in the stock market over the past eight years. Perhaps that’s not surprising, given the depths to which the market had fallen following the banking crash, and the near-total destruction of shareholder value in that sector.

Given the weighting that the sector had within the main Irish and British stock market indices, the destruction took a heavy toll on most portfolios and tracker funds.

Anglo was totally ...