Real Estate Issues articles from March 2004

Real Estate Issues archives from March 2004

About The Counselors of Real Estate.(services)(Company Profile)
March 22, 2004... 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.(issue preview)(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... "IF I HAVE SEEN FURTHER," WROTE SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN 1675, "it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Thus one of the surpassing intellects in scientific history credited the accomplishments of his predecessors, while describing the need...

Transitions.(real estate trend)
March 22, 2004... A SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE THE GREAT TRANSITION IN THOUGHT that brought us to modernity was the reliance on the scientific method for predicting outcomes. The impact went well beyond the natural sciences into virtually all of the social...

Why can't a building be more like a machine?
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SKIPPED REAL ESTATE IN MY FAIR LADY, THE STAGE ADAPTATION OF PYGMALION, Professor Henry Higgins sings, "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" What he is really asking is: "Why can't a set of rules...

Enterprise and parametric modeling: decision support for strategic planning of corporate real estate.
March 22, 2004... WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A CORPORATE REAL ESTATE department could investigate the impact of regional location, facility ownership and workplace utilization using a single analytical tool? What would happen if a Corporate Real Estate department...

Making Green communities work.
March 22, 2004... THROUGHOUT THE NATION, THE BUILDING AND COMMUNITY development sectors of the real estate industry are looking more seriously at incorporating "Green" solutions into their projects. Of course, all of these programs cost money to implement, but...

Focus on investment conditions: value risk management key in this economic landscape.(Insider's Perspective)(Column)
March 22, 2004... TO HEAR THE ELECTION-YEAR RHETORIC, ONE WOULD THINK the U.S. is mired in double-digit unemployment and that all our jobs are on the verge of being shipped offshore to workers in China or India for less than half of what U.S. workers are being...

Focus on global issues: real estate deals with a world in transition.(Insider's Perspective)(Column)
March 22, 2004... WHEN DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUCCESSFUL CITY the term Sustainability or, in the more narrower context, Sustainable Development is usually high on the list of requirements, representing if you like the stamp of approval that National...

Focus on the economy: is Greenspan wrong?(Insider's Perspective)(Reserve Board Chairman, Alan Greenspan)(Column)
March 22, 2004... IS GREENSPAN WRONG? IT DOES SEEM WORTHWHILE TO ASK THIS QUESTION OF THE Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Alan Greenspan, based on his recent testimony before Congress as to mortgages. (He has also appeared before a number of professional...

Focus on REITs: REITs continue global march; The U.K. joins other countries in considering REITs.(Insider's Perspective)(real estate investment trusts)(Column)
March 22, 2004... THE U.K.'S RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LIKELY ADOPTION of the U.S. REIT model underscores an important global trend that could spell opportunity for U.S. REITs and other U.S. real estate players by facilitating both foreign investment and...

Focus on legal issues: city mouse, country mouse.(Insider's Perspective)(Column)
March 22, 2004... EVERYBODY'S HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE COUNTRY MOUSE who visits his cousin in the city. That is, everybody's heard it in one version or another. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the beauties of this tool in the writer's lexicon is that it...