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How building more backyard homes, granny flats and in-law suites can help alleviate the housing crisis

by Jeff Kruth and Murali Paranandi | Jun 30, 2023 | Residential Investor, zNewsletter

To many people, the image of a nuclear family in a stand-alone house with a green lawn and white picket fence still represents a fulfillment of the American dream. However, this ideal is relatively new within a broader history of housing and development in the U.S....

The European Super League has not gone away…

by Ed Warner | Jun 26, 2023 | Investor's Notebook, zOtherDiversions

Don’t dismiss the ESL so lightly. And IOC should poll not pontificate. ‘Laughable’, ‘all hot air’, ‘flimsy’, a ‘walking corpse’. So has English football, on a mostly unattributable basis, dismissed the attempt to breathe new life into the European Super League...

What cricket can teach us about the mind’s experience of time – and how to deal with anxiety

by Sahen Gupta | Jun 24, 2023 | Investor's Notebook, zNewsletter

Bowlers playing for England and Australia in the current Ashes cricket series are collectively meant to deliver at least 540 balls each day (that’s 90 overs of six balls each – more if they bowl any no-balls or wides). If one side’s bowlers cannot capture...

Beleaguered property

by Ben Habib | Jun 23, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters2

After years of asset price growth underpinned by ultraloose monetary policy, the party for commercial property seems to be over. A confluence of adversity is hitting the sector. First came lockdowns with the locking up of customers that would otherwise frequent...

Home Advantage: A new centre-right vision for housing

by Bartek Staniszewski | Jun 19, 2023 | Residential Investor, zOurWriters2

I was dismayed when the Spring Budget was announced to realise that it made almost no mention of housing. Besides a few pounds spent on a couple of homes for veterans and some funding of questionable significance to support clearer routes for housing developers to...