Real Estate Issues articles from September 2003

Real Estate Issues archives from September 2003

About the Counselors of Real Estate[TM].
September 22, 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.(preview)
September 22, 2003... By the time this edition of Real Estate Issues reaches you, we will have moved into the year 2004. Most folks use the time around New Years Day to take stock of themselves at this point in time, and to look forward to plans for the future. For...

Real estate services and a globalized asset class.
September 22, 2003... "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859) The last 20 years of the 20th Century will go down as a period when the international real estate market achieved two things: maturity...

Looking backward and forward: economic restructuring and United States real estate markets.
September 22, 2003... Two interconnected trends with far reaching implications for the real estate industry have evolved in the United States over the last 50 years. First, the nation has steadily moved away from its traditional manufacturing base to become more...

Risk vs. return: a fresh perspective.
September 22, 2003... It is always a challenge to confidently price commercial real estate. The concern generally heats up when space fundamentals are at their cyclical lows and cash flow forecasts are in question. But even in the best of times, the goal for...

Preparing the next generation.(real estate industry : forecasts and analysis)
September 22, 2003... The days of the real estate industry being perceived as an army of "gunslingers," the soldiers of which shoot from the hip and live for the deal based on their gut instinct alone, are over. Even at the local level, our world has changed over...

Commercial real estate mezzanine finance: market opportunities.
September 22, 2003... Mezzanine finance has become an important source of capital for commercial real estate acquisitions, development, and refinancings, as traditional first mortgage providers have become more reluctant to finance projects at loan-to-value (LTV)...

Real estate: evolution of an industry.(Commentary)
September 22, 2003... Dramatic changes have taken place in the real estate world in the past decades, and they involve every aspect of the field--design and construction, a bewildering variety of financial vehicles, new or modified forms of ownership, and so on. ...

Focus on housing: Fair Housing Law--thirty-five years later.(Insider's Perspective)(Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968)
September 22, 2003... The year 2003 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Federal Fair housing Law, which in retrospect is one of the most significant public policy measures affecting the American real estate industry. I make this statement based on my own...

Focus on the economy ... Recovery: are we there yet?(Insider's Perspective)(real estate industry)
September 22, 2003... Economic recovery is much like the family auto outing across the country, as the children in the back seat frequently ask the parents: "Are we there yet?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The issue remains: With regard to recovery of the real...

Recommended reading: leadership from the depths.(Resource Review)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... HOW RONALD REAGAN CHANGED MY LIFE by Peter Robinson How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life: Peter Robinson (Former Speechwriter to the President), Harper Collins, 2003, 263 pages. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The respected management...