What perfect timing for a get-together of 1,800 top lodging industry executives. The hotel business is experiencing its most lucrative period in a decade, but there is increasing apprehension as the high-flying...
A few years ago, the road to success in the lodging industry was one way and smoothly paved. Industry profitability was the highest in decades, properties were trading briskly and development was providing handsome...
Information continues to drive the real estate industry. Increasingly, proper maintenance of accounting data is a critical first step in making sound investment decisions. Real estate companies demand accounting...
It has taken a while for the real estate world and Wall Street to mesh. Congress created the Real estate investment trust (REIT) almost 40 years ago so that small investors could invest in large, income-producing real...
Wal-Mart. Amazon.com. Starbucks Coffee. Blockbuster. While most news covers the big guys these days, bigger and ultra-efficient are not always better; sometimes real estate lending and asset management takes more than...
The capital markets have come to play an integral part in the multifamily industry. But Wall Street is still the newest member of the multifamily real estate family. It's the new in-law sitting at the dinner table ...
Standardized, unbiased, comprehensive, apartment data should be available to everyone. Building a nationwide database of multifamily information that is statistically relevant, yet detailed enough to be useful, is a...