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Redefining retail in China

by Catherine Chen | Sep 15, 2021 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published March 2021. For many years retail has been the second-largest invested asset class in the commercial real estate world. But now, being one of the sectors most hard-hit by covid-19, it is often leaving investors nervy, and has become an area that...

Remembering the truly forgotten, 20 years later

by Peter C. Earle | Sep 14, 2021 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

There’s a faded silver cup on my bookshelf. If you look closely at it, a faded imprint reads ‘eSpeed: We Are Markets’. I received it at a securities industry trade show in the summer of 2001 after a friendly conversation with a gentleman at a booth...

What’s the beef with regenerative agriculture?

by Emily Norton | Sep 14, 2021 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published March 2021. This newly trendy approach is not just environmentally and consumer friendly, it’s practical too – and at root it’s as old as the hills. Regenerative agriculture is the groundswell movement shaking up land investment at the moment. The...

The story of my life, in 750 words

by Garrison Keillor | Sep 13, 2021 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

I was having a hard time falling asleep the other night because I’d thought of something that I was afraid of forgetting if I fell asleep, which was keeping me awake. Not that it was the sort of timeless thing you see printed on coffee cups sold in bookstores, like,...

A hole of your own

by Charlie Ellingworth | Sep 13, 2021 | Residential Investor, zOurWriters1

How to avoid the pitfalls of building down. In early November last year, the residents of Durham Place, London, which looks over Burton Court and the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, had a rude awakening when a house there collapsed, luckily injuring no one. Social media...