Enterprise and parametric modeling: decision support for
strategic planning of corporate real estate.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A CORPORATE REAL ESTATE department could
investigate the impact of regional location, facility ownership and
workplace utilization using a single analytical tool?
What would . . .
Why can't a building be more like a machine?
INTRODUCTION: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SKIPPED REAL ESTATE
IN MY FAIR LADY, THE STAGE ADAPTATION OF PYGMALION, Professor Henry
Higgins sings, "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?"
What he is . . .
Transitions.(real estate trend)
A SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE
THE GREAT TRANSITION IN THOUGHT that brought us to modernity was
the reliance on the scientific method for predicting outcomes. The
impact went well beyond the . . .
Editor's statement.(issue preview)(Editorial)
"IF I HAVE SEEN FURTHER," WROTE SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN 1675,
"it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Thus one of
the surpassing intellects in scientific history credited the
accomplishments of . . .
About The Counselors of Real Estate.(services)(Company
Profile)
THE COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE, established in 1953, is an
international group of high profile professionals including members of
prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well . . .
Focus on the economy; Economic report card:
prognostication.(Insider's Perspective)(Column)
The purpose of this short note is to provide decision-making
information regarding economic indicators relative to the broad market,
especially with regard to real estate markets. Many factors . . .
Focus on hospitality: predictive powers of hotel
cycles.(Insider's Perspective)(Brief Article)
Whether we want to accept the fact or not the hotel business (both
the sale of rooms and assets) is a cyclical business. Cycles exist in
the hotel business for some good and well documented . . .
Focus on market returns: what returns will the market
deliver?(Insider's Perspective)(Column)
In 2003 capital market positives and space market fundamentals
negatives combined to lower real estate investor return expectations.
Today, investors face both the challenge of sustaining net . . .
Focus on global issues: what makes for a successful
city.(Insider's Perspective)(Brief Article)(Column)
Perhaps I should start by introducing myself. I am proud to be the
135th President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with
whom CRE enjoys a close and cordial strategic relationship. . . .
Use of letters of intent in retail leasing: when is a non-binding
letter of intent really binding?
New case law may add a new, unexpected twist to
"non-binding" letters of intent. Landlords, tenants and
brokers are well advised to consider the pitfalls created by Copeland v.
Baskin Robbins, . . .
Who's liable now?--new federal brownfields
legislation.
On January 11, 2002, President Bush signed the Small Business
Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (1) (the
"Brownfields Amendments"). As its name suggests, the act
provides relief . . .
Advance due-diligence activities benefit contaminated real estate
transactions.
Brownfields have been defined by the Environmental Protection
Agency as: abandoned, idled or underused industrial and commercial
facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real . . .
The effect of the jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act
of 2003 on real estate investors.
If real estate investors are to maximize after-tax profits and
maintain appropriate levels of capital investment, they must have a
working knowledge of the latest legislative changes enacted by . . .
Evolution of liability for flood damages: where are we
now?
Changing weather patterns and several recent catastrophic storms
have highlighted the collision between urban redevelopment, suburban
expansion, "sunbelt" or "greenfield" growth, and
changing . . .
Editor's statement.(Editorial)
Over the years, when people ask me that difficult question,
"So what is it that you do?", I have become accustomed to
describing the fascination I have found in what is now a quarter-century
in the . . .
About the Counselors of real estate[TM].
The Counselors of Real Estate, established in 1953, is an
international group of high profile professionals including members of
prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well . . .
Recommended reading: leadership from the depths.(Resource
Review)(Book Review)
HOW RONALD REAGAN CHANGED MY LIFE
by Peter Robinson
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life: Peter Robinson (Former
Speechwriter to the President), Harper Collins, 2003, 263 pages.
[ILLUSTRATION . . .
Focus on the economy ... Recovery: are we there
yet?(Insider's Perspective)(real estate industry)
Economic recovery is much like the family auto outing across the
country, as the children in the back seat frequently ask the parents:
"Are we there yet?"
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
The issue . . .
Focus on housing: Fair Housing Law--thirty-five years
later.(Insider's Perspective)(Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968)
The year 2003 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Federal
Fair housing Law, which in retrospect is one of the most significant
public policy measures affecting the American real estate . . .
Real estate: evolution of an industry.(Commentary)
Dramatic changes have taken place in the real estate world in the
past decades, and they involve every aspect of the field--design and
construction, a bewildering variety of financial vehicles, new . . .
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