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China property crisis

by Zhirong Ou | Sep 1, 2022 | Residential Investor, zEditor's pick

Why the housing market is collapsing – and the risks to the wider economy. China has been trimming interest rates recently – in contrast to other major economies – as it tries to stem the economic effects of its zero-COVID policy and address a growing...

Further confessions of a valuer, 01

by Norman Harker | Sep 1, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zOurWriters1

Metamorphosis In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate. He will pull no punches partly because, as he freely admits, Norman has a...

Climate action and the built environment

by Wesley Paul and Bing Wang | Aug 31, 2022 | The Professor, zOurWriters2

It’s time to prepare for the near future. As the world slowly and unevenly emerges from the two years of pandemic lockdowns, we are entering a new normal that is increasingly defined by a few critical and unprecedented factors. Environmental, Social and Governance...

Into the tunnel, thinking in the dark

by Garrison Keillor | Aug 31, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

Spending some time at Mayo, much of it ordinary, waiting, listening, doing as told, but some of it primal, such as the CAT scan in which I lay on a narrow platform, hands over my head, and was conveyed into a narrow tunnel in the dark and lay there, which made me...

Climate change

by Doug Specht | Aug 31, 2022 | Technology, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Why tech companies must address emissions caused by streaming and scrolling. Technology companies have been having a difficult year. The increased cost of living is turning people away from streaming, cryptocurrencies are faltering, Amazon has raised its prime...