Global | The Property Chronicle

Builder rage!! …but I am giving up anger

by Garrison Keillor | Feb 2, 2023 | The Storyteller, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

The apartment across the hall from where we’re staying in Minneapolis is undergoing extensive renovation – walls being moved, floors torn up and every day last week the noise from there was seismic, volcanic, like they were throwing pickup trucks into a giant grinder...

1066 and all that: the Norman Conquest

by David L. Smith | Feb 2, 2023 | The Historian, zOtherDiversions

How the French take-over changed England profoundly. When Messrs Sellar and Yeatman produced their classic satire of the history that could be remembered from schooldays, they chose to include in their title the one date that every proverbial schoolchild knows: 1066...

Real Estate Investment: Theory and Practice

by Edward Trevillion | Feb 2, 2023 | The Fund Manager

An overview of the book by its co-author Edward Trevillion, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The inspiration for this book came from updating Will Fraser’s text, ‘Principles of Property Investment and Pricing’, the last edition of which was published in 1993. Much has...

Is Istanbul closing in on itself?

by Houston Morris | Feb 1, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Architect

Originally published September 2020. My first visit to Istanbul was part of an architectural tour while studying at the Architectural Association. We were ably led by my tutor, Mark Prizeman, who was a founding member of the avant-garde architectural group NATO (which...

Bitcoin has shot up 50% since the new year, but here’s why new lows are probably still ahead

by James Kinsella and Richard Fairchild | Feb 1, 2023 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

To the delight of investors across the cryptosphere, the price of bitcoin (BTC) has rallied over 53% since its low of US$15,476 (£12,519) in November. Now trading around US$23,000, there’s much talk that the bottom has finally been reached for the leading...