Real Estate Issues articles from June 2006

Real Estate Issues archives from June 2006

Editor's statement.(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... THE COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE'S 2006 STRATEGIC PLAN CHARTS THE future of our organization. Though all committees are using the plan as a guide, Real Estate Issues is at the forefront in implementing it. By its very nature, REI creates an...

Eminent domain after Kelo: the battle continues.
June 22, 2006... IN KELO V. CITY OF NEW LONDON, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT issued one of its most controversial opinions when it ruled that a local government has the power, under certain circumstances, to condemn private property for the sole purpose of economic...

Nuclear waste disposal: a taxing Real Estate Issue.
June 22, 2006... WHEN DEALING WITH ISSUES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT a community socially and economically, emotions can run high and civic leaders may not always receive the best or most accurate advice. At such times, objective analysis...

Evaluating tenant-in-common interests in real estate.
June 22, 2006... ONE OF THE MOST COMMON CONCERNS U.S. INVESTORS AND their professional advisors face when structuring tax-deferred exchange transactions is the difficulty in locating, identifying and acquiring like-kind replacement properties within the...

Real property damages and rubber rulers.
June 22, 2006... DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, MANY ARTICLES AND COURT cases have involved alleged diminution and damages to the value of real property resulting from a disamenity that influences a geographic area of values. "Alleged" is the key word because...

Focus on capital markets: the capital markets outlook is good--but what can go wrong?
June 22, 2006... Editor's Note: The following commentary was excerpted from remarks made during the Capital Markets Panel at The Counselors of Real Estate Midyear Meetings in Charleston, S.C., in April 2006. With the NCREIF property index averaging 11-12...

Focus on the economy: expect big changes in the next five years.(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)
June 22, 2006... TO HEAR THE GENERAL RUN OF ECONOMIC COMMENTARY, you might think that its primary article of faith was penned by Sir Isaac Newton: "Objects in motion tend to remain in motion; objects at rest tend to remain at rest." Following Newton's law of...

Focus on China; A new era for real estate professionals in Mainland China: blending the best of local and international experience.(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)
June 22, 2006... THE PACE OF ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT in Mainland China can only be described as phenomenal, but progress is advancing at a scale and speed that frequently induces errors and solutions that are inappropriate socially,...

Focus on investment conditions: managing expectations in a riskier world.
June 22, 2006... HALF WAY INTO THE YEAR, WE ARE ENJOYING A SURPRISINGLY stronger economy than many of us could have imagined only one year earlier. Despite a series of unexpected economic challenges during the past several years--including high deficits,...

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama (2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 240 pages) FRANCIS FUKUYAMA--the Bernard L. Shwartz Professor of International Political Economy...

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Oliver Roy (2004, Columbia University Press, New York City, 349 pages) OLIVER ROY, A PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, has written previously about...