Real Estate Issues articles from September 2005

Real Estate Issues archives from September 2005

About The Counselors of Real Estate.
September 22, 2005... 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.
September 22, 2005... THE "BUZZ" IN THE GENERAL PRESS ABOUT THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY can be summed up in a phrase: "the bubble." Having experienced a collapse in commercial real estate prices as recently as the early Nineties, and with a wariness honed by the "tech...

Is there a real estate bubble?
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION IS THERE A REAL ESTATE BUBBLE? IF THERE IS, what will be the consequences on the economy as the bubble bursts? Who will be affected by it, and how? These questions reflect daily worries for a significant portion of market...

Is the role of the home changing? Some real estate implications.
September 22, 2005... EVERYBODY AGREES THAT THE CHANGES UNDERWAY in the economy are impacting the nation's real estate market and what's happening now is probably only the beginning of what's to come. Most discussions about such matters focus on what our rapidly...

Is there a future for socially responsible property investments?
September 22, 2005... THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL for a new niche in real estate investing, focused on "socially responsible" property investments. Socially responsible investing (SRI) in general, according to the Social Investment Forum...

Focus on investment conditions: commercial real estate keeps its healthy pace.(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)
September 22, 2005... ALTHOUGH MANY SIT ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEAT as commercial real estate continues to provide relatively strong and solid returns, commercial real estate as an investment class is being viewed in a new light and is considered to be an increasingly...

Focus on the economy; Budget deficit, trade deficit, savings deficit and monetary policy deficit: "are we ok?".(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IF IT IS TIME FOR THE UNITED STATES to have its annual "physical," it may be worthwhile to focus on the "Fiscal" issues, including any potential maladies. I. U.S. TRADE DEFICIT The U.S....

Focus on corporate real estate; A taxing decision: here, there ... everywhere?(INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE)(Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler)
September 22, 2005... DR. SEUSS WROTE DOZENS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS that tell us the world is not necessarily logical, nor does it always work the way we expect it to. That's why when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the longstanding and widespread...

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald (2005, Broadway Books, New York City, 742 pages) THE MOST COMPLETE STORY OF THE ENRON SCANDAL to date has been written by Kurt Eichenwald. a seventeen-year New York Times veteran. A...