Multifamily owners, operators and tenants have embraced resident portals as a convenient conduit for paying rent and submitting work orders. Now industry forward-thinkers are looking at additional ways to make these websites more relevant so they...
Facility management (FM) and corporate real estate (CRE) professionals are in increasing demand in China as they will play a central role in the design and planning of the growth of the country’s mostly state-owned, national corporations...
• Borrowers interested in low-leveraged financing for office or apartment buildings are seeing more parity in bids from life companies, banks, conduits and rating agencies. Six months ago, a borrower might have received bids in a 100-basis point...
Attend any number of multifamily conferences around the Tri-State region and cap rates are sure to be a topic of discussion. But while many suggest that cap rates for multifamily rental properties will flatten in the future or even rise, I would...
More than four years after the onset of the financial crisis, a number of commercial real estate market fundamentals are improving, however, one aspect that has remained largely stagnant is meaningful recovery in areas outside the top U.S. markets...
In recent years, an increasing number of commercial and multi-family real estate professionals have jumped on board with green, sustainable construction and operations. Those who harbored initial reservations are realizing that green building and...
An estimated $300 billion of assets are given to more than 1.3 million 501(c)(3) charities in the U.S. each year, but less than 3 percent of those donations involve real estate equities. However, real estate makes up approximately 43 percent of...
Since 2009, traditional real estate investors have had to learn non-traditional ways of buying property in the United States. That is four years of being creative, four years of working with an entirely new breed of seller, four years of learning...
For nearly all companies in all industries, salaries are the single largest expense. But in most cases, real estate and facility management expenses are a close second. So in the current economy, an increasing number of corporations are turning to...
