Real Estate Issues articles from January 2003

Real Estate Issues archives from January 2003

About the Counselors of Real Estate.
January 1, 2003... 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 as leaders of government and academia who...

Editor's statement.
January 1, 2003... It must have been sometime in the late Eighties that I overheard a conversation in the office lunchroom. The dramatis personae were two of the twenty-something staff of our company, and the subject was the upcoming Corporate Challenge race in...

Case study 2: Jones Lang LaSalle.
January 1, 2003... Jones Lang LaSalle is a leading real estate services and investment management firm, operating across more than 100 markets on five continents. The firm was created through the merger of LaSalle Partners, a U.S.-based real estate services and...

Case study 3: Sprint Corporation.
January 1, 2003... Sprint Corporation (Sprint) is an Overland Park, Kan., based, global communications company serving more than 26 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With 80,000 employees, the firm is a major user of a wide...

Property information: A Guam case study.
January 1, 2003... The Island of Guam, although small in size, presents many interesting examples of the boom and bust cycles experienced in real estate markets. In completing a Guam property information case study, we considered Guam's physical and demographic...

Cross-Border real estate issues: Investing in Canada and Mexico.
January 1, 2003... Global political arid economic instabilities have wreaked havoc upon world financial markets. United States real estate investors, seeking comparatively conservative investments, once confined themselves to "think locally," investing...

Brownfields Revitalization Law: incentives, exceptions, and concerns.
January 1, 2003... On January 11, 2002, President Bush signed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (the Act) into law. The Act amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), (1) also...

Tax credit survey reveals strong market sector.
January 1, 2003... Since its inception in 1986, the low-income housing tax credit program has been perceived as both a highly effective rental housing development tool and a sound real estate investment. The vibrancy of the tax credit program within the...

Dealers in real estate: At least three big tax problems.
January 1, 2003... Even the novice in real estate tax issues has heard the warning that one normally does not want to be classified as a "dealer." A "dealer" is probably best defined as one who is involved in the sale of goods, not with the intent to hold...

Real estate deals with A World in Transition. (Focus on Investment Conditions).
January 1, 2003... 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, and a tumbling stock market were just the...

How to determine the future direction of hotel capitalization rates. (Focus on Hospitality Issues).
January 1, 2003... 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 foundation for rational investing and financing...

Economics as Religion: from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond. (Recommended Reading).
January 1, 2003... 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 in our culture, and it encouraged us to...