Commercial real estate mezzanine finance: market
opportunities.
Mezzanine finance has become an important source of capital for
commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and refinancings, as
traditional first mortgage providers have become more . . .
Preparing the next generation.(real estate industry : forecasts
and analysis)
The days of the real estate industry being perceived as an army of
"gunslingers," the soldiers of which shoot from the hip and
live for the deal based on their gut instinct alone, are over. Even . . .
Risk vs. return: a fresh perspective.
It is always a challenge to confidently price commercial real
estate. The concern generally heats up when space fundamentals are at
their cyclical lows and cash flow forecasts are in question. But . . .
Looking backward and forward: economic restructuring and United
States real estate markets.
Two interconnected trends with far reaching implications for the
real estate industry have evolved in the United States over the last 50
years. First, the nation has steadily moved away from its . . .
Real estate services and a globalized asset class.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)
The last 20 years of the 20th Century will go down as a period when
the international real . . .
Editor's statement.(preview)
By the time this edition of Real Estate Issues reaches you, we will
have moved into the year 2004. Most folks use the time around New Years
Day to take stock of themselves at this point in time, . . .
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 . . .
Focus on the investment conditions: back to the future for real
estate in new tax and accounting rules.(Insider's
Perspective)
A stream of events over the last 12 months from passage of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act to President Bush's tax cut package to a wave of
recently enacted accounting rules has hit the industry and . . .
Focus on the economy: real estate is down: let the games
begin!(Insider's Perspective)
There is no question that the real estate market, for residential
and commercial properties, is down in many sectors throughout the United
States, with some exceptions. In the commercial area of . . .
Focus on investment conditions: investors work at separating the
wheat from the chaff.(Insider's Perspective)
Like much of the rest of the nation, Real Estate Research
Corporation (RERC) continues to watch for signs that the economy is
strengthening. Unemployment increases seem to be slowing, and the . . .
New brownfields incentives add to diminishing inventory of
developable sites in South Florida.
All of the empirical evidence available to close observers of the
brownfields marketplace points to this: the scarcity of land combined
with the demand for land set against the backdrop of a . . .
9/11 reassessments of urban location costs and risks.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, corporate
leaders, their employees, and the insurance industry--all began to
reevaluate location risks and costs associated with occupying . . .
Education in the real estate profession.
How do real estate professionals learn the business of real estate?
What does, and what should, the real estate learning process include?
What are the conceptual models for real estate education? . . .
Deflation risk on income property permanent loan and investment
portfolios.
Over the past 18 years, the author has observed patterns in large
income property loan portfolios during both inflationary and
deflationary investment cycles. An inflationary investment cycle is . . .
Measurement of local economic growth as a critical part of market
analysis.
An important part of local market analysis is the measurement of
economic growth that can be used to track progress in the economy
through time and assess the relative productivity of the local . . .
The growing water crisis: public policy versus private property
rights.
Water is the staff of life. We cannot survive without it. We drink
it, cook with it, bathe in it, play in it, irrigate crops with it, and
use it in manufacturing. Will water be in the 21st century . . .
Editor's statement.(Editorial)
One of the real joys of working in the real estate field is its
complexity. There is always something new to discover, and everything
seems linked to everything else. The "seven degrees . . .
Economics as Religion: from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond.
(Recommended Reading).
by Robert H. Nelson (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, 378
pages.)
The university system in America was originally designed to train
Protestant ministers. Religion was a dominant force . . .
How to determine the future direction of hotel capitalization
rates. (Focus on Hospitality Issues).
John (Jack) B. Corgel, Ph. D
For many in the hotel industry, the ratio of property-level
operating income and asset market pricing - the capitalization or
'cap' rate - provides an important . . .
Real estate deals with A World in Transition. (Focus on
Investment Conditions).
The world has always been an uncertain place, but the confidence of
even the most sure-footed among us has been shaken during the last few
years. The tech fall-out of the late 1990s, a recession, . . .
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