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Aug 21, 2019

In practice, of course, things are more complicated. Effective translation necessitates a nuanced understanding of (at least) two languages and cultures, both source and target. It requires an understanding of the original content’s goals. It m...

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Aug 21, 2019

Your localization partner is going to do a deep-dive into your business—so start by diving deep into theirs. Are they an industry-leader with 20 years of experience or a relative newcomer? Will they speak Samoan, Uzbek, or Swahili (and all your...

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Aug 14, 2019

Content—and how brands use it to interact with buyers at all stages of the engagement journey—has fundamentally reshaped every business’ go-to-market strategy. This shift has been particularly challenging for “top-of-the-funne...

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Jul 25, 2019

This guide is here to help you understand exactly why construction software is revolutionising the industry. With cloud-based systems, there’s a sense of traceability and accountability that has never been seen before in construction. All team ...

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Jul 25, 2019

93% of commercial real estate executives agree with the statement that “real estate organizations need to engage with PropTech in order to adapt to the changing global environment.” In practice, recognition that technology is necessary to...

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Jul 24, 2019

Picketing of jobsites is a frequent occurrence in the Construction Industry. Each year unions set up hundreds of pickets designed to exert pressure on one or more employers. Most picketing situations in the Construction Industry result from mixing un...

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Jul 20, 2019

In a retail business, compromising on quality may affect the bottom line. In the construction industry, it can cost lives. Poor construction quality costs millions of dollars in profit loss each year and accounts for hundreds of injuries, with costs ...

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Jul 15, 2019

If you’re on a B2B revenue team, it’s likely your Marketing and Sales teams are experiencing some angst these days when it comes to understanding how prospects and customers want to interact with your company. On one hand customers seem t...

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Jul 10, 2019

This document provides an explanation on some structural problems or inefficiencies in the current construction sector and how these can be solved through means of smart contracts. In the construction sector payments are made from party to party to a...

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Jul 10, 2019

The labor shortage impacts construction companies when it comes to hiring and conducting business. The time and cost of hiring increases when potential employees are able to be selective and demanding, which lengthens the process. Salaries must be in...

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Jul 10, 2019

The need for affordable housing is on the rise. Nationwide, more than 10 million renter households are severely cost burdened – that is, they spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing. Through our Expanding the Supply of Affordable ...

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Jul 08, 2019

Decisionmaking is a cognitive process defined by psychologists as the selection of a course of action from multiple alternatives (e.g. what to eat, where to shop). John Dewey, the pragmatic philosopher and psychologist, introduced the first decision ...

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Jul 07, 2019

For most people, property investment is by far the most secure method of investment. The underlying problem is, the only way for you to cash out is to sell your properties, and we know that doesn't happen overnight. Real estate in general has low...

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Jul 05, 2019

The development phase of blockchain technology is still being incubated at a very early stage and is currently experiencing exponential growth. It is obvious and imminent that this approach will change the way how industries operate in the world. Blo...

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Jul 05, 2019

This white paper discusses where the construction industry is today, the innovations that are already available and how to approach the digital transformation of your construction company in practical terms.

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Jun 25, 2019

The pace of turnaround for new homes is hotting up. According to Government figures some 217,000 were delivered to the market in 2017  an increase on the previous year and the highest rate for a decade. But the Government cannot afford to let th...

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Jun 24, 2019

We believe that data-driven marketing shouldn’t be confusing. Every company should know what works for their campaigns in order to make more ROI-driven decisions. At Directive, we not only craft customized campaigns for your unique marketing ob...

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Jun 20, 2019

Property-level suitability pioneers a completely new way of executing valuations related to home equity lending, providing a next generation cascade alternative. By conducting a first initial valuation test on the property with VeroPRECISION, users c...

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Jun 20, 2019

Residential operational real estate in the UK is still in its early stages, representing an exciting growth opportunity for investors and developers. Institutions are already active, but we expect appetite and activity to grow substantially as invest...

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Jun 15, 2019

Construction projects over the past few decades have become increasingly complex. As a result disputes2 have grown in direct relation to the size and complexity of projects. One recent study reported that the value of the average dispute in the Unite...

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Jun 10, 2019

In the fast-paced environment of today’s real estate industry, expanding the diversity of ideas is especially important and is driving the greater innovation necessary to navigate disruption and capitalize on change. Men still outnumber women b...

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Jun 05, 2019

Real estate has historically been known for its cycles, which have included some big highs and some low lows, but we are now at a unique time in the current cycle and the norms of the past regarding pace and cadence are foundationally different. This...

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Jun 05, 2019

European direct real estate is set for a slightly more benign year of performance, owing to the likely softening in demand fundamentals and signs that prime asset pricing trends are reaching their peak. While risks remain tilted towards the external ...

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Jun 04, 2019

There is a fundamental shift going on in Australian listed real estate. For years retail property has been the rightful leader in the listed market providing strong returns for investors. It has become the bedrock of passive investing in listed real ...

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May 24, 2019

The UK economy has never been in greater need of high-quality, efficiently managed private housing. But this is nothing new. 2012 saw the publication of the Montague Review as a result of a long-standing housing deficit in the UK. There was already a...

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May 16, 2019

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have had a banner first four months of the year, even though the sector returned -0.2% in April after investors moved to a more “risk on” focus. Notwithstanding April’s pause, REITs’ year-...

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May 10, 2019

At CAMRADATA’s latest roundtable on The changing face of Real Estate, Infrastructure & Real Assets, held in London at the start of the year, asset owners explained why the appeal of owning buildings, windfarms and waste incinerators was on ...

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May 10, 2019

TECHNOLOGY is changing the most fundamental truth about commercial real estate (CRE)—that value is based solely on location, location, location. While it still matters, of course, that a space be close to customers, employees, and/or suppliers,...

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May 01, 2019

OWNERS OF VARIABLE INSURANCE CONTRACTS THAT INVEST IN THE SHARES SHOULD REFER TO THE VARIABLE INSURANCE CONTRACT PROSPECTUS FOR A DESCRIPTION OF FEES AND EXPENSES, AS THE TABLE AND EXAMPLES DO NOT REFLECT DEDUCTIONS AT THE SEPARATE ACCOUNT LEVEL OR C...

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Apr 30, 2019

In FY18 Consus completed its transformation into the largest listed pureplay residential real estate developer in the top nine cities in Germany and will now focus on optimising its operations. With a relatively young portfolio representing €9.6...

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Apr 26, 2019

The usable space within a building is a fundamental metric in understanding the valuation of real estate. Property with greater internal floor area commands a higher rental return and could give rise to a greater Return on Investment (ROI) when inves...

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Apr 25, 2019

At every decision point, we consider our ability to advance the real estate industry, impact on the environment, and commitment to the well-being of people and local communities. Our Corporate Responsibility Program is integral to our mission, consta...

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Apr 25, 2019

When property owners find themselves in the position of dealing with a construction defect and need to decide whether or not they should seek an action, most owners fail to contemplate how the damages may be calculated. Not addressing this question c...

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Apr 23, 2019

Contractors manage a lot of moving parts on a daily (if not hourly) basis from crews on the job site, subcontractors, equipment, materials and continuously changing conditions. Not to mention, they need to make sure all parts of a job are completed a...

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Apr 16, 2019

Since 2013, the National Association of REALTORS® has written the Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Report. This report provides insights into differences and similarities across generations of home buyers and sellers. The home buyer an...

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Apr 10, 2019

Despite its position as the leading global earner, the real estate development industry has had, and still faces, challenges that undermine its true economic and human development impact. Apart from having to deal with the inevitable challenges that ...

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Mar 15, 2019

There is an incredible opportunity to create value by addressing Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) risks in the real estate sector – placing investors and fund and asset managers at the forefront of sustainable investing and manageme...

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Mar 15, 2019

The 2015 Government’s ambition was to secure 1 million net additions to the housing stock by the end of the Parliament which was expected to be in 2020. The Housing White Paper, Fixing our broken housing market (February 2017) described a numbe...

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Mar 13, 2019

Real estate investors are facing a test of nerve in 2019 as concerns around economic uncertainty rise while, at the same time, they are forced to overhaul traditional business and valuation models in response to rapidly-changing consumer demands.

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Mar 13, 2019

This white paper takes a deeper look at the underlying issues in ongoing conversations about the global housing deficit today. It examined the performance and prospects of the real estate industry in the face of a fast-changing global economy, establ...

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Mar 05, 2019

Commercial space is heavily concentrated in large buildings, but large buildings are a relatively small number of the overall stock of commercial buildings. In terms of inventory, commercial real estate markets are bifurcated, with the majority of bu...

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Mar 03, 2019

There is an incredible opportunity to create value by addressing Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) risks in the real estate sector placing investors and fund and asset managers at the forefront of sustainable investing and management.1 Bui...

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Feb 23, 2019

Global Real Estate is to attract private investors and other funders who are interested in financing sustainable development and land rehabilitation. The market is not as accessible to investors who can afford it as it should in the age of decentrali...

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Feb 15, 2019

The private rented sector overtook social housing as the UK’s second largest tenure in 2011-12. There are estimated 4.5 million households renting privately– around 20% of all households – according to the 2017-18 English Housing Su...

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Feb 15, 2019

To gain insight into how brokers and agents are responding to the HyperLocal trend, WAV Group conducted real estate’s first HyperLocal Survey. The research confirms that while brokers and agents recognize the importance of neighborhood-focused ...

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Feb 08, 2019

In 2019, we expect growth in the US economy to continue supporting demand for real estate. Even if the pace of growth in real GDP is a little slower than 2018, the momentum is positive, as shown in exhibit 2, and the labor market is strong. Strength ...

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Feb 07, 2019

IL&FS default and ongoing speculaons about DHFL have made industry stakeholders anxious yet again. Moved by the upheaval we have tried to gauge impact of liquidity squeeze on the sector and developers. In the past 10 years while value of sold sto...

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Feb 04, 2019

As investors continue to migrate from the stock market to the real estate market, the need for sound financial analysis of income producing properties is greater than ever. Just as buying high-flying stocks with no regard to intrinsic values resulted...

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Feb 01, 2019

We believe prime logistics in Sydney and Melbourne. Tokyo and Seoul should provide relatively higher total returns of around 10% in 2019, backed by a higher concentration of online retail and a sizeable domestic market to buffer against trade protect...

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Jan 31, 2019

Lofty valuations, recent market volatility, and rising concerns over the probability of recession in the coming years are keeping most investors on their heels as they head into 2019. Economic indicators remain generally positive, but much of that ma...

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Jan 30, 2019

In 2019, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) believes economic growth will moderate globally and diverge across major markets, while interest rate policies are expected to converge and financial conditions will likely tighten. The combinatio...

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Jan 15, 2019

Another strong year is in prospect for the Irish commercial property market in 2019. Although there is likely to be some further moderation in the pace of growth, the market remains broadly stable. However, it must be acknowledged that we are now ano...

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Jan 15, 2019

NeroEX is a blockchain-based platform built to grant easy access to easily invest, hold, buy or sell real estate with Gold, Diamond and other cryptocurrencies or crypto-assets. We want to create a better life with real estate, especially for the Futu...

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Jan 15, 2019

Media, marketing and the way high-net-worth consumers can be reached and influenced is an everchanging landscape. At Luxury Portfolio International® (LPI), along with our research partner YouGov, we wanted to put a fine point to understanding the...

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Jan 15, 2019

New business models and competition, extensive use of technology, and changing tenant and investor expectations are redefining the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. In our 2018 Real Estate Outlook, we emphasized that RE companies will likely hav...

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Jan 10, 2019

In complicated conditions, organizing principles matter. When a disparate array of circumstances present themselves, the advice frequently comes, “Connect the dots.” Many of us will recall puzzle books from childhood where “connect ...

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Jan 10, 2019

It's an exciting time for the Real Estate industry. While the benefits of AI and Machine Learning are well acknowledged across dozens of verticals, CRE has traditionally been a few steps behind in terms of digital transformation. According to the...

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Jan 10, 2019

Rumblings about a recession on the horizon are starting to make company leaders a bit nervous, but many are just too busy keeping up with current work to start thinking about contingency planning. In fact, the constrained labor situation, coupled wit...

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Jan 05, 2019

The CAD revolution in building design has already passed. Designers have now moved on to BIM - virtual Building Information Modelling - based on digital information exchange. With so much design information available in digital form, and its capacity...

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Jan 05, 2019

Real estate performance across much of the Asia Pacific region remains healthy on the back of strong capital markets and stable occupier fundamentals. Across the region, key cities in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia continued to see ...

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Jan 02, 2019

This white paper is an overview of the Devolve Developer’s value proposition along with its economic sustainability delivered through our innovative real estate platform, utility, and technical structure. Devolve Developer’s platform will...

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Dec 30, 2018

Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network is the world’s leading producer of research on women in commercial real estate. It develops white papers annually and publishes a benchmark study every five years to provide valuable industry insights...

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Dec 20, 2018

Homeownership has traditionally been the path to a secure financial future. Yet with homeownership on a historic decline, home equity is no longer achievable for many. This has diminished the middle class and led to rising inequality. The reality is ...

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Dec 20, 2018

With the year drawing to a close, we turn our attention to the outlook and identify nine major occupier and investment trends that we expect to infl uence market conditions and investment performance in 2019 and beyond.

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Dec 20, 2018

AREITs and private investors continue to be the major sources of investment product but both groups were active on both sides of transactions, with total acquisitions largely offsetting disposals in 2018. With the exception of two major acquisitions ...

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Dec 20, 2018

RealCrowd offers direct real estate investing opportunities to accredited investors. All properties that are offered are prevetted, institutional quality assets managed by the top real estate operators across the United States. A commercial real esta...

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Dec 20, 2018

Our vision is to grow Property Coin (PCX) into a $1 billion property and loan portfolio that revitalizes neighborhoods promotes affordable housing and delivers profits and value appreciation to our investors. Property Coin is designed to enable the g...

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Dec 20, 2018

Real estate, globally, has attracted huge financial investment in recent years. Since 2012, real estate technology based companies have raised almost $6.4 billion in funding across 817 deals in the United States alone . Real estate technology is defi...

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Dec 15, 2018

Montana’s Constitution and laws require the Department of Revenue to reappraise all property periodically and value similar property across the state in the same manner. This manual provides a general overview of the mass appraisal process the ...

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Dec 15, 2018

The UK residential market has continued to struggle against several well-established obstacles over the past year. Affordability issues, a lack of stock, political uncertainty and the prospect of further interest rate rises have all been factors seem...

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Dec 11, 2018

QuantmRE is creating EQRE the world’s first cryptocurrency with true intrinsic value a stable coin backed by real estate assets QuantmRE is building the world’s largest membership-driven, vertically integrated tokenized real estate market...

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Dec 04, 2018

Whether the rapid growth rises from fresh rounds of funding, the signing of multiple big clients or expanded sales (and sometimes, all three), the swelling business leads to exciting news: your staff needs to double from 100 to 200 people fast. The c...

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Nov 30, 2018

The real estate as we know it is unyielding rarely fits the needs of its buyers or occupiers and limits mobility in a world that now imposes it on the vast majority of its inhabitants. This whitepaper intends to layout the proposed project of solving...

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Nov 25, 2018

With the recent tax regulatory changes and continuing disruption in the real estate sector, applying evolving accounting rules to your business remains a clear and serious challenge. In our annual real estate accounting and reporting publication, KPM...

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Nov 20, 2018

In 2008, bitcoin announced itself as the first blockchain application, introducing the world to distributed ledger technology a secure and transparent peerto-peer payment protocol. Fastforward a decade and blockchain is transforming the way global bu...

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Nov 20, 2018

Due to its size, real estate owned by municipalities is an important segment of the real estate market . Yet it received little attention in society as well as in science until recently. Due to the economic crisis that started in 2008, municipalities...

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Nov 10, 2018

Significant changes in the Real Estate world have occurred in the past twenty years. The explosive growth of the Internet accompanied by the creation of social networks has made information ubiquitous. Smart phones and mobile devices put the world in...

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Nov 01, 2018

The Elements Estates project will encompass the novel ideas of cryptocurrencies and asset management through decentralized ledgers, based on blockchain technology. We will build an online platform that will introduce to the market real estate initial...

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Oct 25, 2018

Today, real estate transactions are conducted in ways which, by and large, have not yet been affected by the recent technology revolution. Investments in real estate can only be made through inefficient processes involving multiple intermediaries. As...

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Oct 25, 2018

Zillios is the fruit of dozens of years of combined experience in international real estate and offers a disruptive and highly innovative property sale and vacation rental platform, scalable on a global level, completely changing actual market practi...

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Oct 25, 2018

While quantitative analysis is critical to prudent real estate underwriting, real estate math isn't a black‐and‐white exercise, nor is it simple formula lending. Many qualitative judgments will feed into your estimates of property cash flow, debt...

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Oct 20, 2018

Caviar is the first to offer digital assets and real estate in a single cryptographic token available on the Ethereum blockchain. Our mission is to provide token holders with a diversified, risk-adjusted, data-driven portfolio with exposure to both s...

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Oct 10, 2018

Contractors face many complex and unique challenges that are driving change throughout the construction industry. Those who recognize the impact of these changes on their business and are prepared to make the necessary adjustments will be better posi...

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Oct 03, 2018

In the end, you need to be rewarding your sales reps with more than just money if you want to keep them motivated and if you want your sales compensation plan to deliver on its promises.

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Oct 03, 2018

The first CRM launch truly changed the way sales were managed. We went from tracking customers on spreadsheets (and even in rolodexes) to tracking them and their attendant opportunities with software. It wasn’t long before reps started to feel ...

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Oct 03, 2018

Let’s explore some of the current processes around pipeline management and forecasting and how they can be improved.

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Sep 24, 2018

The measure of the rate at which work is performed is called “productivity”. It is a ratio of production output to what is required to produce it. The measure of productivity is defined as a total output per one unit of a total input. In ...

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Sep 20, 2018

By various metrics, UK commercial property is looking fully priced. At the same time, ‘theoretical Brexit’ is becoming much closer to ‘real Brexit’. Consequently, investors (especially cross-border investors) are increasingly ...

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Sep 20, 2018

The importance of real estate in our life is difficult to overestimate: our home, our employer’s office and our local shopping mall all compete for our hard-earned cash, directly or indirectly. We rent or pay a mortgage on the home we live in. ...

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Sep 20, 2018

The Block Estates Solution "Unrestricted Access to Global Real Estate Investments through Blockchain"  Block Estates introduces the world's first platform enabling investors to research, invest in and exit global real estate invest...

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Sep 15, 2018

The real estate industry is long overdue for a shakeup. Not only is one-third of the industry running on technology that was first released over 30 years ago, but it continues to put up barriers to transparency, preventing the release of locked up li...

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Sep 15, 2018

Spending growth in 2018 is forecast to be led by select nonresidential and residential segments. Current top-three-performing segments forecast through year-end 2018 include transportation (+13 percent), public safety (+10 percent) and conservation a...

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Sep 15, 2018

A year on from KPMG International’s first PropTech survey, it is evident that the real estate industry has made a start on the road to realizing the opportunities that technology and innovation can bring. But there is still some way to go. The ...

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Sep 04, 2018

Alt.Estate Group is a financial technology company offering a new solution for real estate tokenization: the Protocol and the Platform. Alt.Estate Protocol covers the technology, corporate structure and legal compliance aspects of tokenization. The P...

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Sep 01, 2018

The real estate industry is long overdue for a shakeup. Not only is one-third of the industry running on technology that was first released over 30 years ago, but it continues to put up barriers to transparency, preventing the release of locked up li...

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Aug 30, 2018

The current economic recovery began in 2009 and is quickly becoming the longest recovery in history. Interest rates, until recently, and unemployment have been at historic lows. Capital and liquidity in the banking industry are near historic highs. A...

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Aug 25, 2018

Real estate is ripe for blockchain adoption due to its size, fragmentation, multi-party transactions, and illiquidity. Cryptocurrency wealth is real and offers a significant new source of capital looking for investment opportunities, not unlike inves...

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Aug 25, 2018

The survey was conducted by U.K.-based Property Funds Research (PFR). PFR is an independent management-owned business that provides confidential research and strategic consulting for investors in European real estate. PFR’s foundations are an e...

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Aug 20, 2018

India’s economy exhibited healthy growth rates in the last decade, with the exception of 2012. The average growth rate registered over the period 2000–2012 was approximately 7.2%. The growth has been achieved on account of increased consu...

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Aug 20, 2018

The housing market, though capable of generating billions of dollars of revenue, lacks solution providers that can swiftly and efficiently supply the ever-growing demand. By launching the OLM token initiative, we will make history, creating innovativ...

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Aug 20, 2018

Studies have consistently shown an important link between ESG performance and financial returns. Harvard Business School research has shown that companies with a high commitment to ESG in their organizational processes, structures and disclosures &ld...

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Aug 19, 2018

The New York City’s strong real estate market performance, the robust interest of foreign investors throughout its history, and macro factors that support job and population growth have together created a favorable environment for investment op...

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Aug 10, 2018

Sustainable real estate development is an essential component of intergenerational justice, in part because the real estate sector creates more than 20% of the world’s carbon emissions. Governments, recognizing that environmentally sustainable ...

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Aug 01, 2018

Real estate is traditionally one of the safest and simplest ways to invest money in the modern world. However, real estate investment comes with its own set of drawbacks that limit ease of use. The main downside to real estate investment is their ill...

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Jul 23, 2018

Custom ICM solutions are built for you, not auditors, so they typically don’t offer visibility into actions performed over time. Auditors may lack confidence in your homegrown system, especially if they find errors or omissions. In fact, audit ...

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Jul 23, 2018

It all ties together. You want your sales reps to behave a certain way and close a certain amount of deals in specific verticals that match your company’s 3- and/or 5-year vision, but the systems you currently have in place to drive this behavi...

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Jul 23, 2018

You’ve reached a certain point in the evolution of your company and you know it’s time to invest in a CPQ system. But buyer beware: There’s a certain misconception around CPQ systems as being plug-in devices or turnkey-ready overlay...

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Jul 23, 2018

The spreadsheet conundrum... Joe Smith, sales director for Great Start-Up Number 5 Billion and Thirty-One, puts on a blindfold and reaches out blindly for something, ANYTHING, to help him organize his team’s deals and commissions. He’s hopeful. He’s ...

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Jul 20, 2018

i-house.com has been positioned as a global real estate blockchain cloud platform since its preparation stage. Its mission is to integrate global real estate markets with the blockchain mechanism. Through joining blockchain and real estate, the real ...

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Jul 18, 2018

Land records in most developing countries are not available to the public. Tacit land information shared through generations is rarely upheld in cases of dispute and is often lost over time. Consequently, the general public is forced to trust the gov...

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Jul 12, 2018

NAB’s Residential Property Index (a measure of sentiment among property professionals based on expectations for house prices and rents) fell 17 points to +6 in Q2 - its lowest level since mid-2016 and well below average (+14). Sentiment waned i...

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Jul 10, 2018

Architects may design environments to improve the quality of life, but it’s the construction industry that makes those concepts a reality. A fundamental aspect to sound construction is selecting the correct materials, and one that has been gain...

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Jun 20, 2018

The internet has changed the way people buy and sell homes. Methods of lead generation and sales that worked 10 or more years ago just aren’t working anymore.

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Jun 15, 2018

While there is endless talk about the possibilities of blockchain for businesses and across industries, as well as hundreds of projects in the pipeline, few such initiatives have come to fruition. Among the most prominent industries that have adopted...

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Jun 15, 2018

Real estate is just a shell in which a society operates Mankind has overcome nomadism and today settled real estate has become a major component in how societies operate. Real estate is a shell in which a society operates given that our lives (living...

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Jun 15, 2018

The future framework will contain both elements that are known, as from the Danish ICTregulations 118 and 119, and new elements. This gives the industry a possibility for continuing using well proved practices and supplement with new necessary elemen...

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Jun 15, 2018

Spending growth in 2018 is forecast to be led by select nonresidential and residential segments. Current top-three-performing segments forecast in 2018 include transportation (+10 percent), residential improvements (+9 percent) and office (+9 percent...

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Jun 10, 2018

Real Estate Agents continue to be a critical component in the home buyers search process. Home buyers are relying heavily on online sources and their agents to provide information, with decreasing use of some sources, such as newspapers and open hous...

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Jun 07, 2018

This paper examines the transformations and trends in the healthcare industry as it seeks to meet pressing challenges, including escalating health care costs, an aging population, the future shortage of physicians, geographical inequities in the paye...

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Jun 05, 2018

For far too many, the dream of property ownership seems untenable, particularly in the majority of the world’s largest and most dynamic cities. Regulation & legal complexity, high costs, time constraints, tax implications, location limitati...

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Jun 04, 2018

It is increasingly widely recognized that there is a shortage of affordable housing in nearly every city in America. At the national level, 11 million renter households – more than one in four – spent upwards of half their income on rent ...

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Jun 01, 2018

Newmark Knight Frank researchers across the U.S. collaborated to examine six popular commercial real estate myths of 2018 and determine to what extent they are anchored in reality. For each myth, we summarize the popular theory from a national perspe...

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May 31, 2018

Interest in healthcare real estate is increasing as fast as the industry itself is growing. Rising patient numbers and real estate spending point to long-term demand and cycle resilience for investment in healthcare-related buildings. Healthcare prov...

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May 25, 2018

The statewide apartment vacancy rate decreased from 3.7% to 2.7% in Spring 2018. While there is variability among the individual county rates, all counties included in the survey had vacancy rates below 5%, which is usually considered the threshold f...

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May 14, 2018

The Housing White Paper found that because the existing housing stock is largely single-family homes on large lots, new supply will need to include more diverse for-sale and rental product types, at more price points, in more locations, to meet the b...

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May 05, 2018

This is a significant year for the Inland Empire. It’s been a decade since the Great Recession hit the United States, the nation’s worst downturn since the Great Depression, and it’s the year that home prices in many communities acr...

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May 05, 2018

Global real estate markets have carried their strong performance from the latter stages of 2017 into the first few months of 2018, with investment and corporate occupier activity at their highest levels for a decade. In the logistics sector, vacancy ...

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May 05, 2018

ARA and Berkeley Point Capital present the First Quarter 2018 United States Multihousing Market Report. The statistics and outlook contained in the report illustrate current trends in the Multihousing sector.

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May 05, 2018

Amazon’s search for a new headquarters ("HQ2") has demonstrated the redefining of corporate America’s view of a geographical location, placing at risk decades-long views of optimal capital allocation for real estate investors. I...

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Apr 26, 2018

This prior paper showed clearly that the SACOG region is falling behind in meeting people’s needs for housing. Housing is being developed at a much slower rate than almost any time since the early 1980s. In information provided by Greg Paquin o...

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Apr 25, 2018

Today’s worldwide capital projects are getting ever more complex and larger in scope, with many of these projects facing chronic cost overruns and schedule delays. In fact, as an industry, engineering and construction (E&C) almost just acce...

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Apr 20, 2018

Place to rent is a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) global platform in the space of both long and short-term residential and commercial rentals, such as homes, apartments, office, retail, and industrial space. We anticipate capturing real estate rent...

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Apr 20, 2018

A large part of digitized information is today hosted on various systems. As a result, businesses often face challenges such as a lack of transparency and efficiency, while a higher rate of inaccuracies creates a greater potential for fraud and dispu...

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Apr 20, 2018

The global real estate market offers uniquely appealing long-term prospects for investors capable of acquiring the data necessary for confident decision making. Critically dependent on local conditions and trends, the market has long been locked away...

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Apr 20, 2018

Brickchain Investments, Ltd (“Brickchain”) is a London based corporation founded in the first quarter of 2018 with the aim of bridging emerging blockchain technology together with the real-estate market, consequently giving everyone the p...

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Apr 20, 2018

The global financial crisis has caused an important structural shift in investor preferences towards alternative investments and away from more volatile equity markets. In addition, bond yields have plummeted in the aftermath of the crisis, leaving i...

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Apr 20, 2018

The Real Estate and Construction market has been changing over the past few years. With all these changes going on, Deloitte Real Estate is releasing the Real Estate Predictions 2018. We hope the predictions enhance your understanding of the opportun...

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Apr 20, 2018

Digitalisation and demographic change are shaking up business, society and politics, but also the real estate sector. New forms of living and working, as well as changed values and attitudes, are shaping the real estate of the future and making as mu...

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Apr 20, 2018

The start of 2018 has been an inauspicious one for the construction industry. The liquidation of Carillion in January, combined with the unseasonal weather in February and March, will inevitably lead to a poor first quarter of activity for the indust...

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Apr 20, 2018

Homeownership has traditionally been the path to a secure financial future. Yet with homeownership on a historic decline, home equity is no longer achievable for many. This has diminished the middle class and led to rising inequality. The reality is ...

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Apr 18, 2018

Will blockchain technology produce PropTech 3.0, the next wave of innovation in real estate? Since 2012, real estate tech companies have raised USD 6.4 billion in funding and 4 companies have been minted to the unicorn club. This activity indicates r...

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Apr 15, 2018

This Whitepaper proposes a solution to reduce the bureaucracy involved when renting a property (commercial or residential), with the aim to improve the speed and ease of completing a variety of transactions throughout the rental process, including in...

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Apr 11, 2018

Commercial real estate investors look to the coming year with increased optimism thanks in large part to the approval of new tax legislation. Details are still unfolding on some of the finer points of the recently passed Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. The ...

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Apr 11, 2018

Sustainable by Design: Increasing Water Efficiency and Reducing Cost in Affordable Housing is a case study drawing upon lessons learned from the Chicago Water-Efficiency Pilot. Enterprise Community Partners and Elevate Energy is working to develop so...

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Apr 04, 2018

Affordable housing can be a foundation for overall stability and well-being for the District’s lowest-income residents. Research shows that having a safe and affordable place to live is essential to health outcomes and achievement in school. Ye...

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Apr 04, 2018

As a real estate operation grows and evolves, it adds employees, customer databases, investors, and properties under management. Compared to other professional services, real estate operations must be especially mindful of the evolution of their liab...

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Apr 01, 2018

America faces a major shortage of affordable housing. Nearly half of all renters are paying 30% of their income on rent—or more. And the number of households who are renting is near postwar highs. Meanwhile, private market-focused policies have...

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Mar 27, 2018

At Collateral Analytics we continuously work to improve our valuation models by incorporating new and better measures of those influences on value which, while exceptional in nature, create significant variation in valuation accuracy and levels. ...

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Mar 26, 2018

Cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based technologies have the potential to transform the real estate industry. This paper outlines a vision for a new crypto-currency, a trading platform and software applications for the real estate industry based...

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Mar 20, 2018

Finland is an open, well-functioning and stable economy, where strong growth, innovation and structural reforms transformed the country into one of the world’s most competitive economies during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Serv...

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Mar 15, 2018

The Tax  Cuts and  Jobs Act  (TCJA)  of  2017,  the most  significant revision  to  the U.S.  tax code  since  1986,  reduced  the headline  corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%...

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Mar 15, 2018

This whitepaper describes the utilization of distributed ledger technology for record management of real estate titles, financial data, and property encumbrance, held within a federated blockchain operated by government departments, financial institu...

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Mar 15, 2018

The past two years have been landmark years for India’s real estate landscape; ranging from the formation of a strong regulator on one side to easing of foreign investor norms on the other. The years have also witnessed a major thrust on afford...

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Mar 15, 2018

Tycoon Global Real Estate Investment Platform (hereafter referred to as Tycoon Global) is a decentralized real estate investment, trading, and management platform, which is based on Ethereum.  Through a decentralized blockchain platform, Tycoon ...

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Mar 15, 2018

Each year, the million-plus real estate professionals nationwide set time aside from their day-to-day to take a deep breath, examine their success from the past 12 months, and learn what they can do better in the year ahead to boost their bottom line...

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Mar 15, 2018

The operations and management within the CRE industry are abstruse and extensive in nature huddled up with innumerable formalities and yet this sector has arguably lagged behind in capitalizing computer-aided technology ' Real estate sellers/buye...

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Mar 15, 2018

The ROCATI project the world’s first cryptocurrency linked to a tangible asset: the home comes just when the real estate market has reached its lowest point in modern history. ROCATI Limited brings together leading experts in the real estate an...

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Mar 14, 2018

Buying a primary residence is an emotional and financial milestone in peoples’ lives. Buying real estate investments is different. It’s more like a business proposition, intended to generate rental revenue and profit through market apprec...

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Mar 14, 2018

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, the most significant revision to the U.S.  tax code since 1986, reduced the headline corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Businesses have already responded to the fiscal stimulus, which was designed to ma...

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Mar 10, 2018

Currently, online trading markets are powerful and increasing continuously. The most important one is the Real Estate market which needs quick and clear information. However, the information is, sometimes or often, sent from unknown senders. The pres...

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Mar 08, 2018

The real estate market is one of the globally largest but to our experience still very intransparent and inefficient industries. SwissRealCoin (SRC) commits to bringing real estate assets onto the Blockchain to revolutionize the real estate asset man...

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Mar 08, 2018

As the price of U.S. housing reaches historic highs and continues to climb, financial experts and investors alike are questioning the reasons behind this continuous growth. Have we reached a peak, signifying a future decline? Is another housing crisi...

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Mar 06, 2018

The real estate (RE) industry seems to be on an accelerating disruption curve highlighted by rapid changes in tenant dynamics, customer demographic shifts, and ever-increasing needs for better and faster data access to allow improved service and amen...

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Mar 05, 2018

Through advocacy, influence and engagement, Central City Association (CCA) enhances Downtown LA’s vibrancy and increases investment in the region. As Los Angeles’ center for growth, Downtown has the potential to meaningfully address the h...

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Mar 05, 2018

In the housing White Paper, ‘Fixing our broken housing market’, we made it clear that our priority is building the new homes this country needs. We made a commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020 - and half a million more ...

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Feb 27, 2018

Economic growth strengthened to 2.3 percent in 2017, from 1.6 percent in 2016. After a slow start in the first quarter, the economy picked up steam in the second quarter and finished strongly in the fourth quarter, with all engines of the economy fir...

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Feb 27, 2018

There are close to 132,000 units of affordable housing in the U.S. that are in various stages of development. Nearly one-third of these planned units are at risk of not receiving the necessary financing now that the tax cut has reduced the incentive ...

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Feb 25, 2018

Economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges in the world today. For this reason, the founding team built Wealth Migrate an online Real Estate Marketplace that democratizes access to quality real estate assets across the globe at an affordab...

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Feb 22, 2018

Technological change affects everyone. It alters our daily lives at every level: social, economic, and political. Until now, the real estate industry’s reaction to these fundamental changes has been muted, even though real estate’s vulner...

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Feb 20, 2018

The Deed mission brings the relationship of property owners and agents to the 21st century. We repair the model of the real estate industry by reducing costs and labor while providing information transparency for all parties. Agents win more customer...

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Feb 20, 2018

REALECOIN™ is a tokenized real estate investment fund. The Fund seeks to acquire income-producing, institutional-quality multi-family housing units that need redevelopment or renovation. The Fund will improve the properties, refinance the equit...

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Feb 20, 2018

The traditional centralized real estate system has remained mostly unchanged in the past couple of decades. NEST plans to disrupt the current ecosystem by streamlining processes, automaCurrently, the residential real estate market is not as accessibl...

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Feb 17, 2018

Investing in real estate has long been a well-known method of wealth-building. Favored by many and with a myriad of options to choose from, individuals are spoilt for choice when it comes to their investment options. However, traditional real estate ...

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Feb 15, 2018

While it appears that the housing market has bottomed out, or nearly so, in many areas, a recovery is hard to find and the vast majority of those in the industry and millions of homeowners are still enduring economic hardships. How did we get into th...

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Feb 15, 2018

At Urbit Data we believe Real Estate market needs more transparency and therefore we are working hard to build the biggest online service and real estate management platform in the world. Our core vision is to create an ecosystem which offers and man...

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Feb 15, 2018

Things look positive in 2018 for the real estate and construction industries. Although the uncertainty of previous years has not entirely gone and some markets won’t be as buoyant as they have been on the whole the road ahead looks more settled...

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Feb 14, 2018

This paper represents the culmination of the research completed during the first two years of the Los Angeles Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Preservation Initiative, a collaboration led by Enterprise’s Southern California office in partners...

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Feb 14, 2018

At CenterSquare we believe an appropriate consideration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues is important to making the right real estate investments. Real estate assets are one of the primary locations of energy usage (environmental...

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Feb 12, 2018

Apartment investments will maintain a positive outlook in 2018 as the combination of steady job creation, healthy demographics and an accelerating pace of household formation sustain renter demand. The consistent ¬ow of newly developed units, a t...

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Feb 11, 2018

Driven primarily by private sector investment, blockchain-based technologies are being developed to address a number of land and property related challenges. This paper examines how those technologies have been applied to land registries and real est...

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Feb 10, 2018

In recent years, real estate firms have realized the benefits of technology adoption to streamline operational efficiencies and gain competitive advantage. But across commercial and multifamily real estate firms,asurprisinglylarge proportion are stil...

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Feb 08, 2018

In anticipation of a plateau for underlying commercial real estate markets, REIT returns began to moderate beginning in 2015, delivering mid-single-digit total returns and range-bound pricing over the last few years. The fundamental factors moderatin...

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Feb 08, 2018

Real estate managers are increasingly turning to technology to improve operational performance across their commercial and/or multifamily portfolios. New, powerful tools are enabling operators to effectively optimize building equipment performance, i...

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Feb 07, 2018

One of the measures by which any proposed housing finance system must be judged is how well it would serve low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. In this analysis, we assess how well the multi-guarantor system proposed in the draft under discussi...

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Feb 07, 2018

Real estate equity markets are currently experiencing significant volatility, elevated valuations, and heightened uncertainty. Moreover, a “lower for longer” interest rate environment is leading investors to seek income ahead of capital r...

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Feb 06, 2018

President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1), or the "Act," a comprehensive tax reform package representing an overhaul of federal taxation arguably on a level not seen in more than 30 years. The sweeping piece of legi...

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Feb 06, 2018

The purpose of this White Paper is to present Etheera and ETA Token to potential token holders. in
connection with the proposed Token sale. The information set forth below may not be exhaustive and
does not imply any elements of a contr...

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Feb 02, 2018

Yet there is an undercurrent of caution in the three regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate reports, and more so from the 24 senior professionals interviewed for this Global Emerging Trends edition. These industry leaders all acknowledge that this i...

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Feb 02, 2018

In recent years, many companies have been reconsidering their real estate strategies. This is especially true for companies that own and utilize significant real estate in their business. In many cases, this is either part of an effort to unlock unta...

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Feb 01, 2018

This white paper presents a series of proposals that have been discussed by the OREA REBBA Review Taskforce. The Taskforce does not endorse any of these proposals. They are options we want your feedback on. That feedback will inform the recommendatio...

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Feb 01, 2018

From December 2007 to June 2009, the U.S. economy lost over 8.7 million jobs.1 In the months after the recession began, the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent, reaching double digits for the first time since September 1982, and American household...

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Jan 27, 2018

Property Coin is your exclusive key to participate in a token backed by a diversified and professionally managed portfolio of real estate and loans uncovered using Aperture’s proprietary technology platform. Property Coin is managed by Aperture...

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Jan 25, 2018

Real estate transactions can be some of the most complicated and burdensome undertakings many people ever participate in. Even the simplest lease agreement is rarely fully understood by the parties signing it. Additionally, enforcing the terms of the...

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Jan 25, 2018

Losses arising from natural disasters in 2017 were among the highest ever recorded. Total global economic cost was USD344 billion dollars as insurers covered USD132 billion of that total. Nine of the ten costliest insured loss events in 2017 impacted...

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Jan 25, 2018

This Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) research paper documents the statistical forecast models that the modeling team has developed as part of the process for establishing the affordable housing goal benchmark levels for Fannie Mae and Freddie M...

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Jan 20, 2018

Knotel is changing the way commercial property is listed, leased and recorded by creating a blockchain-based record of available commercial space, tenants seeking that space and, ultimately, all related real estate transactions. Currently, the public...

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Jan 17, 2018

Geopolitical uncertainty will continue to weigh on investors’ minds, but the focus has turned toward a number of positive economic indicators and the continued optimism over tax reform. Despite this confidence, the commercial real estate market...

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Jan 15, 2018

Emerging Trends in Real Estate® is a trends and forecast publication now in its 39th edition, and is one of the most highly regarded and widely read forecast reports in the real estate industry. Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2018, undertake...

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Jan 11, 2018

The enactment of tax reform legislation will have far-reaching consequences and create new planning considerations for the real estate industry—particularly REITs and other investors in real estate. Our report examines selected provisions in th...

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Jan 10, 2018

The trend in construction continues to show lower growth than that of the economy in general. In the third quarter, the fall of the accumulated GDP of the sector is -1.2% as an annual rate, largely due to civil works, which have fallen by 11%. The bu...

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Jan 06, 2018

Emerging Trends Europe reveals an industry that is buoyed by a brighter general economic outlook and, in turn, stronger occupier demand for much of Europe than previous years. Continental European markets are benefiting from a relative slide in senti...

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Jan 05, 2018

The United States recently enacted the most comprehensive tax reform in more than 30 years. US policymakers and American businesses have championed tax reform for years on a bipartisan basis, concerned that the US tax system was out of step with the ...

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Jan 05, 2018

Solar energy offers commercial real estate (CRE) property owners and managers an exceptional opportunity to boost cash flow by reducing utility expenditures, increasing rents, and increasing common areas maintenance (CAM) reimbursements. Installing a...

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Jan 05, 2018

The central message our nation needs to understand about fair housing is captured in the subheading of Professor George Lipsitz’ chapter in The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housi...

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Jan 05, 2018

MUXE is the innovative platform that uses Blockchain technology to allow users to LIST, SEARCH, SECURE, and SETTLEall your Real Estate needs. MUXE is a one-stop platform that facilitates from buying your DREAM HOME to getting rental income from your ...

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Jan 02, 2018

President Trump signed the tax reform bill, “An Act to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Titles II and V of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for the Fiscal Year 2018,” into law, marking the largest change to U.S. tax policy si...

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Jan 02, 2018

The REAL Trends 500, now in its 30th year, remains the undisputed leading report ranking the performance of the top residential real estate services firms. Firms are ranked by both closed transaction sides and sales volume. Due to the requirement tha...

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Jan 02, 2018

Perhaps more than any other industry, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is primed to reap the benefits of advances in Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. In fact, nearly 33% (equating to $11 trillion globally) of the industry’s assets ...

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Jan 02, 2018

Since 2008, NAIOP has conducted this study for purposes of estimating the annual economic contribution of commercial real estate development to the U.S. economy. The study uses key data sets from the U.S. Census Bureau and Dodge Data & Analytics....

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Jan 02, 2018

LCAM believes the supply and demand dynamic for commercial real estate (CRE) has created a favorable backdrop for investment. We believe limited construction and moderate economic growth has made CRE fundamentals favorable, despite recent market vola...

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Dec 30, 2017

The inevitable convergence of blockchain and real estate may be viewed as a modern-day example of the classic confrontation staged when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. On the one hand, real estate an industry as old as mankind is noto...

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Dec 27, 2017

The commercial real estate (CRE) industry appears to take pride in keeping several aspects of its operations secret, such as comparable lease rental rates, property prices, and valuations, to create a possible competitive advantage. However, secrets ...

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Dec 27, 2017

Before engaging in real estate investment trusts as a solid investment tool, you should familiarize yourself with the definition and inner workings of these investment products. With a clear picture of what this key investment tool offers, it will be...

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Dec 22, 2017

In Private Letter Ruling (“PLR”) 201751011 issued on December 22, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) revoked and modified parts of PLR 201123003 issued on March 4, 2011 regarding the treatment of carbon emission units ...

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Dec 22, 2017

oday, President Donald Trump signed the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA or Act) that lowers business and individual tax rates, modernizes US international tax rules, and provides the most significant overhaul of the US tax code in more than...

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Dec 20, 2017

We generally believe that the premium for liquidity remains high despite steady growth and few immediate concerns. We see this across the different asset classes as well as within MBS/real estate. Across spread products, the liquid MBS and public sec...

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Dec 20, 2017

Everyone in the real estate industry is examining their practices in light of the big changes coming August 1, 2015. The new closing forms from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are the most significant change to real estate closing in years, ...

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Dec 20, 2017

How are the international prime property markets performing, and what are the chief drivers of performance? Which are the “hottest” luxury primary and second-home markets? Luxury Defined, Christie’s International Real Estate’s...

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Dec 20, 2017

An alternative to property portals such as Zillow, Zoopla, realestate.com.au and realtor.com, this white paper outlines Propify’s real estate Blockchain marketing solution, providing a continual and immutable public ledger of property updates m...

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Dec 20, 2017

A REIT is a company that owns or finances income-producing real estate. Unlike real estate companies that focus on developing properties in order to resell them, REITs buy and develop properties primarily with a view to holding them within their own ...

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Dec 20, 2017

The fundamental truth that the value of the commercial real estate (CRE) is mostly based on location is becoming undermined by a new factor – information. While the fundamentals of real estate still matter, information on day-to-day building op...

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Dec 20, 2017

In addition to diversifying the portfolio, multi-family investments can reduce portfolio volatility, provide steady income and offer tax advantages few investments can match. In this paper, we attempt to explain the benefits and risks of multifamily ...

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Dec 16, 2017

Choosing the right real estate closing and family law software can be quite a challenge when it comes to understanding which one best fits your practices needs. By understanding the features that are needed, and adding good support with proper traini...

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Dec 15, 2017

Many real estate law firms have found it easier to outsource closings to title companies than to perform them in-house, but this practice comes at significant costs - both literal and figurative. Outsourcing typically serves one of three purposes. It...

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Dec 15, 2017

Emerging technologies are transforming every aspect of the insurance business. Property and casualty insurers are adapting InsurTech capabilities to be more customer-centric, to optimize costs, and to improve operational efficiency. Transformational ...

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Dec 13, 2017

There is general consensus that when entering 2018 the real estate industry is at the same time in an elongated cycle but still has legs under it with more to run. With the passage of tax reform, significant capital available for investment and conti...

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Dec 12, 2017

Commercial real estate found itself at the intersection of major global changes during 2016. Activity remained moderate in the world’s economies, with further monetary easing continuing on several continents, according to the Expectations &...

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Dec 05, 2017

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly referred to as The Affordable Care Act and otherwise known as "Obamacare", was signed into law in 2010 and became effective January 1, 2014. As a result, the United States c...

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Dec 04, 2017

Blockchain could radically change the real estate sector and other sectors in the years ahead. How will this work and what will it mean for the world of real estate? Is it players? What will blockchain deliver when it comes to uniformity, efficiency,...

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Dec 04, 2017

Amid all the uncertainty in the post-Brexit world, one thing is certain—US CRE firms will be challenged in doing cross-border business. And the situation can get exacerbated if Brexit has a cascading impact and other countries seek to leave the...

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Dec 01, 2017

How can real estate executives adapt their business models to keep up with the evolution of their ecosystem? Here are four priority areas for 2018 that may help them bridge the gaps while maximizing value and growth. The real estate (RE) industry see...

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Nov 30, 2017

There are multiple reasons to include publicly traded global real estate securities (GRES) in an institutional real estate portfolio. Some, but not all, of these reasons are also true of the private real estate. The main advantages of publicly traded...

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Nov 30, 2017

There is no doubt that the real estate market is the most stable investment that has consistently demonstrated a more significant profit margin and lower risk of loss over time. The stability and high likelihood of asset appreciation are what make re...

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Nov 29, 2017

Increased demand for U.S. commercial real estate assets and a maturity in the property cycle driven by economic growth have been major contributors to the volume of commercial real estate in the United States. But game changers, including technology,...

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Nov 27, 2017

Historically, research has shown that out-of-town home buyers are informationally disadvantaged and therefore pay higher prices compared to in-town buyers. However, with the advent of online housing platforms, a plethora of free information about the...

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Nov 22, 2017

The improved performance of the property sector in recent times means greater revenue to the State Governments from increased transaction activity and higher valuations. The proportionate tax burden borne by the Real Estate & Construction industr...

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Nov 15, 2017

In a low-interest rate environment, it is tempting to gear up non-residential property to generate higher returns on equity. Yet, we believe now is not the time to be pushing leverage (gearing) levels too high. As the RBA quite rightly points out, if...

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Nov 15, 2017

According to the National Association of REALTORS 2016 Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers, 95 percent of all recent buyers are using the internet at some point during the home search process. Of the home buyers who used the internet to search for a ho...

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Nov 15, 2017

Major metropolitan areas across the United States and internationally have experienced tremendous economic and population growth over the past five years, resulting in near-maximum occupancy of both residential multi-family (apartments and condominiu...

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Nov 11, 2017

This whitepaper discusses the many benefits of Parcel Boundary Data and why it’s one of the most in-demand additions to real estate websites. Digital Map Products CEO Jim Skurzynski talks about how parcel boundaries improve real estate decision...

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Nov 07, 2017

In the new economy, the value of retail real estate will be defined by its ability to meet the needs of a retailer’s omnichannel sales strategy. The implication for landlords is the need for significant repositioning of existing assets and lowe...

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Nov 02, 2017

The housing shortage is now one of our top domestic political issues, at the forefront of the government’s and opposition’s positioning during the 2017 general election and party conferences. However, policy development has thus far been ...

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Nov 02, 2017

Landlords should have a provision in their lease that states that notice of non-payment of rent is waived. If that clause is contained in the lease, then it becomes a business decision on the part of the landlord regarding when to turn a defaulting t...

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Oct 25, 2017

This paper summarizes changes in housing prices during the recent U.S. boom and bust from various geographic perspectives. Nationally, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller house price index more than doubled in nominal terms during the boom a...

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Oct 22, 2017

This report results from a combination of research methods. Chapters 1 and 2 draw heavily from the research of one of the authors as well as from substantial academic literature regarding issues such as housing affordability, the evolution and fluctu...

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Oct 18, 2017

Responsiveness. Innovation. Agility. Adaptability. All organizations must possess these qualities in order to thrive in today’s highly competitive global economy. Until recently, the corporate real estate was not considered a strategic advantag...

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Oct 18, 2017

CRE owners may believe that smart cities are unlikely to impact the existing built environment, or that the timing is too far out to consider seriously. However, some evolving trends are likely to impact the CRE industry faster than expected. Growing...

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Oct 18, 2017

The industrial real estate sector is at an inflection point in the United States due to a confluence of both technological and physical events and disruptive forces impacting trends. The rise of e-commerce has led to a reduction in physical store siz...

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Oct 18, 2017

An urbanization trend has taken root in major metropolitan areas across the United States, one that we believe will allow multifamily assets to continue experiencing solid fundamentals at least through 2016 and probably beyond. Household formation ha...

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Oct 16, 2017

Perhaps we need a new definition of housing affordability or perhaps we need to ask Dr. Barkham to visit a few more modestly sized cities, although he does conclude there is no housing bubble looming.   Still others have been singing the sa...

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Oct 10, 2017

The mortgage industry has been struggling since the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Act to produce and deliver accurate documents to consumers on a significantly shortened timetable. It seems that adopting electronic clo...

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Oct 10, 2017

The distance may be dead, but the location is not. Information technology and broadband connectivity are enabling automation and globalization to proceed at an accelerating peacebuilding innovation, boosting productivity, and opening new markets for ...

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Oct 10, 2017

With record amounts of capital still seeking a home, investors continue to find ways to buy into Canada’s finite investable commercial real estate sector. Investment activity is buoyed by a relatively healthy economy that is the envy of the G7 ...

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Oct 04, 2017

Since the legislation that first created REITs over 50 years ago, there is no question that much has changed in the world of real estate and real estate finance. REITs continue to expand and flourish in ways which were clearly not contemplated 50 yea...

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Oct 03, 2017

Non-profit affordable housing developers have played a key role in New York City housing plans since the beginning of the modern, city-backed affordable housing model. Mayor Koch’s seminal Ten-Year Housing Plan relied heavily on non-profit deve...

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Oct 02, 2017

Initially, it is important to ensure that the property has procedures to document everything that is performed during the application process. Proper qualification procedures will include written application, check list, interviews, along with credit...

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Sep 26, 2017

The U.S. currently has a student debt load of $1.4 trillion, which accounts for 10 percent of all outstanding debt and 35 percent of the non-housing debt. The magnitude of the debt continues to grow in size and share of the overall debt in the econom...

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Sep 15, 2017

Building on 25 years of research, this paper provides an alternative approach for direct real estate investors seeking to add alpha to their broadly diversified property portfolios. First, one must simplify the landscape by grouping 128 different Com...

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Sep 13, 2017

Over the past twenty years, business transactions worldwide have grown into an ever-evolving set of internet-based technologies that are designed to make business run more efficiently, and to facilitate swifter communications and closure and fulfillm...

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Sep 13, 2017

There are various types of private real estate funds. Understanding the basic structure can help mitigate against associated risks. West Group Advisors has advised many clients over the years on various private equity transactions. We have reviewed s...

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Sep 12, 2017

Real estate is very much a tax-driven industry. As a result, changes in US tax policy have an impact on the relative attractiveness of real estate as an investment class for non-US investors. Increases to the US tax rates on capital gains, the taxati...

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Sep 04, 2017

West Group has a series of 50 real estate investment principles that are derived from successful value investors in the equity markets. We call these the Thrifty Fifty. Most of these principles are well known, open and in plain sight. We have applied...

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Aug 30, 2017

Selecting and investing in construction-specific software is a critical decision for construction businesses. By educating your team about the current trends within construction technology and how a fully integrated system can improve profitability, ...

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Aug 25, 2017

Real estate, a key asset class in a portfolio, can offer stable income returns, partial protection against inflation, and good diversification with other investments in the portfolio. An efficient real estate portfolio should include varied regions, ...

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Aug 22, 2017

There are many reasons for the most recent recession and collapse of the commercial real estate [CRE] market. It was a “perfect storm” for the financial markets that were awash in cash that had to go somewhere. Wall Street banks, their cl...

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Aug 20, 2017

Over the past few quarters, real estate fundraising has struggled to remain consistent, and 2017 is on course to see one of the lowest totals in the past five years. The number of funds closed in Q3 was a little more than half that seen in Q2, and ag...

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Aug 17, 2017

U.S. banks have increased their commercial real estate (CRE) lending significantly in the past five years. Economists and regulators note that some positive factors are driving this trend, but they also see potential risks. Analysts at the Richmond F...

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Aug 16, 2017

This paper examines the risk-reward associated with investing in stabilized/non-stabilized CRE, and argues that low leverage loans backed by transitional properties are the sweet spot for CRE investing in the current environment.

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Aug 10, 2017

The commercial real estate market may face gradual softening with signs that investors are proceeding more cautiously on new investment. Exclusive research results from the third quarter NREI / Marcus & Millichap Investor Sentiment Survey show a ...

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Aug 07, 2017

The mortgage industry has been struggling since the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Act to produce and deliver accurate documents to consumers on a significantly shortened timetable. It seems that adopting electronic clo...

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Aug 07, 2017

The Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing has long produced and sponsored industry-leading research on the demographic trends shaping real estate development and land use. From our biennial Housing in America reports to last year’...

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Aug 04, 2017

Apartment investments remain well positioned entering 2017, though several important macro-level dynamics have begun to shift course. The November election set in motion a range of fiscal, monetary, regulatory and economic changes that will merit clo...

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Jul 26, 2017

A REAL ESTATE MARKETING FIRM in one of the largest markets in the U.S. recognized the need to develop and implement a digital and content marketing strategy for a large residential property but did not know where to begin.

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Jul 20, 2017

Real Estate Doc (RED) will revolutionize the managing of commercial real estate businesses. Running on our blockchain network, our technology platform facilitates secure, immutable and legally binding transactions between parties using blockchain and...

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Jul 20, 2017

This paper presents a brief overview of IPD, reflects on how IPD stems from current challenges facing the building industry, and presents the perspectives of three key members of an integrated project team: owner, architect/engineer, and contractor. ...

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Jul 12, 2017

The purpose of this White Paper written by Bitrent project (the “Company”) is to present the Rntb Token (the “Rntb Token” or “Rntb” or “Token”) to potential holders in connection with the proposed token...

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Jul 07, 2017

Paperless offices are nothing new, but law firms are one of the last types of business to adopt the practice in large numbers, because we are all so accustomed to having to deal with massive amounts of paper for every aspect of practice. The truth is...

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Jul 05, 2017

More than eight years ago, during the early days of the financial crisis, the federal government took control of the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through a legal process called conservatorship. Since then, Fannie and Freddie – ...

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Jul 04, 2017

In the post-Global Financial Crisis investment world, a distinct asset class called “Real Assets” has emerged, primarily motivated by the desire of investors to increase diversification and income while reducing volatility. In the current...

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Jun 20, 2017

The commercial real estate (CRE) market is rich with opportunities for smart buildings to improve property management top- and bottom-line performance through expense reduction increased property values and better workplace experiences for tenants. T...

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Jun 20, 2017

We are convinced that the long-term rental space is the next industry to be disrupted by blockchain technology, and our entire team believes that blockchain and smart contracts will play a crucial part in this upcoming disruption. Redberry's goal...

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Jun 15, 2017

The long-awaited proposals set out to deliver a higher number of homes through a co-ordinated approach that tightens up the planning system and requires local authorities and developers to do more.

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Jun 14, 2017

The aim of the Construction Products Regulation is to protect people in buildings against the consequences of a fire. The growth of digitalization means that the density of cables in buildings is constantly increasing. In general, the quantity of fla...

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May 25, 2017

In this paper we explore what RealTech means, explain the global growth of RealTech, and provide a perspective on the future of RealTech together with the implications for real estate sector participants.

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May 10, 2017

The housing bubble fallout of 2007-2010 resulted in a paradigm shift in the U.S. among many households. Disillusioned by the bursting of the house price bubble that destroyed equity, many former home owners continue to rent today. Younger households,...

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May 08, 2017

In every aspect of our economy, advancing technology and evolving demographics are fueling significant changes in demand patterns. How we live and work is increasingly connected, which influences consumer and business decisions. By its very nature, o...

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May 05, 2017

For the first time since the Great Recession, U.S. bank commercial real estate lending (CRE) has surpassed its 2008 peak. After a sharp decline in construction lending and an overall reduction in CRE loans outstanding between 2008 and 2012, S&P G...

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May 05, 2017

In a constantly evolving world, even a traditional sector such as real estate changes and innovates. In our view, the future of real estate is directly linked with innovation. The startups of today are the potential industry leaders of tomorrow. Incu...

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Apr 24, 2017

REIDAO seeks to introduce crypto assets that are backed by a particular real estate in the real world. This will create an exposure towards the real estate market for the crypto assets holders, such as rental income generation and capital appreciatio...

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Apr 15, 2017

Managers of successful firms are today facing challenges that would have been unimaginable to many of their predecessors a decade ago. The advent of information technology and electronic commerce has brought with it a significant paradigm shift in th...

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Apr 15, 2017

While we are now almost eight years  into the current economic  expansion, our market indicators  remain positive for investing in U.S.  real estate. The market is competitive; however,  we continue to see compelling  op...

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Apr 12, 2017

Making real estate a part of your portfolios offers a host of benefits, including a stable income stream and strong returns, capital preservation and diversification through non-correlation to the broader markets. But not all real estate is created e...

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Mar 25, 2017

The goal of the project is to improve how real estate transactions are performed. The most common real estate transaction is the purchase of a private residence. Here we first describe the main features in this process as it stands today. Following t...

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Mar 15, 2017

The successful delivery of projects is at the heart of the infrastructure and urban-development industry. As one industry expert put it, “Project delivery is about the global value proposition of the construction industry, going beyond time and...

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Mar 14, 2017

For the first time since the recession, U.S. household income increased significantly during 2015. Gains were seen even among the lowest income households, with the poverty rate declining from 14.8% to 13.5% (Proctor, Semega, & Kollar, 2016). Mil...

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Mar 10, 2017

Rapid urbanisation and demographic changes, especially within emerging markets, will lead to substantial growth in the real estate industry. At the same time as the industry’s opportunities grow, so too will assets invested in the sector. &ldqu...

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Feb 20, 2017

Since the instant the Big Bang created the universe, scientists assert that it has been expanding for 13.7 billion years. The same cannot be said of the real estate markets. For more than 200 years, the average full U.S. real estate cycle runs its co...

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Feb 14, 2017

REIT valuations position the sector as a compelling investment option as we enter 2017, as REITs have already discounted the factors that should moderate returns in the underlying real estate markets this year. For private real estate markets, 2017 i...

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Feb 05, 2017

For the purposes of this white paper, IREM legislative staff researched each state’s real estate licensing law and applicability to property management. IREM staff examined the real estate licensing authority in all fifty states and the Distric...

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Jan 30, 2017

On 3 January 2017, the 115th Congress was sworn in, which capped a surprising sweep by Republicans of the House, Senate and White House. Before, during and following the campaigns, President Trump, House Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConn...

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Jan 09, 2017

Our fundamental approach and valuation models suggest global REITs are priced to deliver an 8.5%–10.5% total return in 2017, consisting of a 4% current dividend yield and 5%–6% growth in earnings driven by occupancy gains, higher revenue ...

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Jan 02, 2017

For investors around the world, real estate has long been considered a source of significant, stable return. The popularity of real estate investment is undeniable given its annual worldwide transaction volume of approximately US$660 billion, a figur...

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Nov 25, 2016

The foundation of the real estate economy is based upon the commission earned from the buying and selling of property. In every transaction, there is a buying side and a selling (listing) side. Real estate companies focus more on the listing side bec...

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Nov 16, 2016

Single-family suburban homes have been the mainstay of the U.S. housing market since the post-World War II automobile boom. However, as mortgage credit availability became scarce and homeownership plummeted following the financial crisis, the demand ...

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Nov 11, 2016

Starwood Capital’s opportunistic real estate program is distinguished by the Firm’s continuous ability to develop creative strategies to add value throughout the investment process—enabling the most advantageous exit.

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Nov 05, 2016

The questions real estate professionals typically have when using social media to their advantage are how to begin, how to build, and where to focus. The Impact of Social Media in Real Estate survey reveals that more than 87 percent of respondents ar...

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Sep 20, 2016

Technological innovation is one of the most important drivers of societal change and in response, the built environment continues to evolve to facilitate changing demand patterns. Technological disruption is providing both opportunities and threats f...

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Sep 14, 2016

On August 31, 2016, the IRS released final regulations (“Final Regulations”) to clarify the definition of “real property” for purposes of the asset tests applicable to real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). The F...

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Jul 12, 2016

U.S. Single Family Housing significantly lagged post-crisis recoveries compared to equities and commercial real estate. That relative underperformance, plus potential support from pent-up demand, augur well for housing. In our opinion, median income-...

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Jul 05, 2016

Information presented herein for the second quarter ended April 30, 2016 is subject to finalization of the Company's regulatory filings, related financial and accounting reporting procedures and external auditor procedures.

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Jun 30, 2016

Mirvac is a leading, diversified Australian property group, with an integrated development and asset management capability.

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Jun 23, 2016

The Seniors Housing sector is constantly changing and evolving. Greystone Real Estate Advisors is in the market every day, continuously talking to buyers and sellers across the United States and Canada. In this Market Trend Report, we discuss topics ...

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Jun 16, 2016

Rapid advances in technology are poised to disrupt many of the sectors that anchor Canada’s economy. The impact will be felt across the country, yet many Canadian businesses aren’t ready for it including the real estate industry. digital ...

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May 20, 2016

The UN is forecasting the world’s cities to increase in population by 380 million people in the next five years. Consequently, the planet will need to build the equivalent of five cities the size of Los Angeles every year between now and 2020.

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May 09, 2016

Our brand identity is the way we express who we are and what we do – in a way that people recognise.By consistently applying our brand to all of our communications, we reinforce what makes us stand out from our peers.

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May 05, 2016

Property managers often struggle to get technically sound energy efficiency and renewable energy projects approved for financial reasons. Sometimes the split incentive embedded in leases makes projects uneconomic for the building owner. Other times, ...

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May 03, 2016

At a time when many businesses are delaying decisions and reducing their footprint, technology and telecommunication (T&T) companies have proved among the most active occupiers and have been responsible for a series of notable deals across several Eu...

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May 01, 2016

The global prime property market continued on a steady growth trajectory in early 2015 after several post-global crisis years of price appreciation and booming sales. However, shifting economic dynamics and financial-market volatility created a parad...

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Apr 19, 2016

2015 was a pivotal year for DAMAC, not only did we achieve record revenue and a profit level, a highlight was the company listing on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), our home market exchange.

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Apr 16, 2016

Logistics real estate occupiers further expanded their footprints through the first quarter of 2016 despite recent volatility in the financial markets and the global economy. The latest reading from Prologis’ proprietary index of customer activ...

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Apr 06, 2016

With the release of the new lease accounting standard as well as other market factors such as activist investors pushing for real estate monetization, we have begun to see companies that own or lease significant amounts of real estate for use in thei...

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Apr 04, 2016

Increased demand for U.S. commercial real estate assets and a maturity in the property cycle driven by economic growth have been major contributors to the volume of commercial real estate in the United States.

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Mar 31, 2016

FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS WE HAVE ACHIEVED GREAT SUCCESS. WE BELIEVE OUR MARKET BREADTH, DIVERSITY OF PRODUCT, STRONG BALANCE SHEET, AND NATIONAL BRAND PREPARE US FOR EVEN GREATER SUCCESS IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS.

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Mar 20, 2016

Developing the net operating income (NOI) or cash flow is an important first step in the prudent underwriting of a commercial real estate (CRE) property. Quantitative analysis is one facet of prudent real estate underwriting, but the real estate math...

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Mar 10, 2016

Real estate valuations have become fairly expensive in 2015 and the current real estate cycle might be approaching the end of its lifespan.

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Mar 05, 2016

This White Paper is divided into two parts. Part I: U.S. Census Bureau Affordability and Income Indicators, which have received little attention in previous research regarding historic districts and affordable housing, even though these indicators ar...

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Feb 17, 2016

Amer Group (AMER, CA on EGX), the Master regional developer of large-scale, mixed-use-family-oriented communities, has released its consolidated financial results for the Financial Year that ended December 31, 2015 recording EGP 1,846.8 Million conso...

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Feb 09, 2016

Office space densification, when over-done, or undertaken by a firm in an industry ill-suited to an open floor plan, can lead to a decline in employee productivity.

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Feb 05, 2016

Emerging Trends in Real Estate® is a trends and forecast publication now in its 37th edition, and is one of the most highly regarded and widely read forecast reports in the real estate industry.

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Jan 18, 2016

In recent years, property investments have provided an attractive source of income as an alternative to the financial markets. The changing cost of capital, and declining competition from institutional investors.

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Jan 01, 2016

The last twenty plus years have seen dramatic economic upheaval and equally dramatic recovery. Over this period, the housing market has likewise experienced volatility and, more recently, rapid increases to record high prices.

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Jan 01, 2016

Prime residential real estate continues to be immensely attractive for the world’s wealthiest individuals. Despite stock market volatility, geopolitical instability, and new regulations, luxury property markets overall still have a strong future outl...

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Dec 22, 2015

A full seven years after the financial crisis that rocked the world’s economies, we find ourselves today in an environment where every aftershock — whether set off by a slowing Chinese economy, sovereign debt concerns or geopolitical concerns — is gr...

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Dec 05, 2015

Despite the US economy reaching its healthiest levels since the 2008 recession, low inflationary policy, and loose borrowing conditions, US consumers are still cautious with spending on goods and buying from retail stores.

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Dec 01, 2015

JLL is pleased to announce that its Subscriber New Zealand Retirement Village Database (NZRVD) 2015 update is available for purchase. The Subscribers NZRVD contains a selection of data fields from the JLL’s Master NZRVD 2015 which is used for consult...

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Nov 16, 2015

The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to advance the quality and availability of seniors housing and care options for America’s elders. NIC provides research, education, and incr...

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Oct 14, 2015

The U.S investment market strengthened between mid-year 2014 and mid-year 2015 as the availability of capital, improving economy, and historically low interest rates pushed sales volumes higher for all asset classes.

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Oct 14, 2015

This paper has been prepared by Robinson & Cole LLP in its capacity as national consultant to NAR. The paper is one in a series of white papers that NAR requests be prepared from time to time in order to focus on a particular smart growth-related...

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Oct 13, 2015

It’s no secret that the recent volatility in the REIT market has been driven by fears of an increase in the Fed Funds rate.Markets are concerned that a Fed tightening cycle may disrupt the economy and derail the real estate markets.

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Oct 01, 2015

This White Paper discusses green leases-The benefits, global best practice and demonstration of how a green lease can enable improved.

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Sep 29, 2015

Commercial Real Estate is everywhere: your local coffee shop, industrial park, downtown main street, and even the office where you work. NAR has a broad array of resources to help you provide the best service to your clients, and to be the best in yo...

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Sep 18, 2015

Despite continued falls in oil prices over the past twelve months, Saudi GDP is expected to grow by 3.6% in 2015. GDP growth is however expected to slow down throughout 2016 with Oxford.

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Sep 09, 2015

Lincoln Property Company (LPC) is pleased to present to Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA) and the City of Cambridge the following response to the Request For Qualifications to develop and operate the Foundry Building in Kendall Square.

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Aug 20, 2015

The unreliability of property valuations was one of the key findings that emerged from the (2008) Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s probe. Two key reasons among the various factors contributing to not-so-fair valuations are missing and/or i...

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Aug 15, 2015

The modern supply chain is both local and global. Trade patterns have become increasingly sophisticated in the last 20 years, driven by shifts in where goods are produced and consumed.

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Aug 12, 2015

For over 20 years, the local experts at Greystar have tailored solutions to meet the needs of our clients. Greystar leverages local market knowledge, experience and The Greystar Advantage to provide solutions for all asset types.

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Jul 01, 2015

Investors’ increasing demand for fixed income alternatives has led them to embrace real estate as a key component of their mixed-asset portfolio. As a result, institutional capital fl ows towards the sector have flourished in recent years. This...

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Jul 01, 2015

America needs a 21st century immigration system that supports a growing economy and lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. The Administration continues to believe that Congress must pass comprehensive, commonsense im...

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Jul 01, 2015

Alberta Queen's Printer holds copyright on behalf of the Government of Alberta in right of Her Majesty the Queen for all Government of Alberta legislation. Alberta Queen's Printer permits any person to reproduce Alberta’s statutes and r...

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Jun 15, 2015

The causes and consequences of the subprime boom, housing market collapse, and financial crisis hold tremendous significance for policymakers and activists seeking to ensure a strong and fair economy. Coming out of the Great Recession, one of the mos...

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May 23, 2015

We are pleased to submit the 2012 - 2015 Strategic Plan for Ottawa Community Housing Corporation. This document outlines the strategic priorities which have been determined through extensive consultation with tenants, staff, partners, our shareholder...

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May 13, 2015

Oxford Properties Group (‘Oxford’) and Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate GmbH (‘Union Investment’) have created a 50:50 joint-venture (the “JV”) regarding Watermark Place in London, with Oxford acting as asset manager to the JV. In parallel,...

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May 13, 2015

On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, the National Association of REALTORS® Risk Management Committee met in Washington D.C. to discuss issues effecting REALTORS® across the country.

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May 06, 2015

Multi-family investments offer investors an opportunity to benefit from geographic markets within the U.S. experiencing superior job growth and real estate appreciation while reducing portfolio volatility, achieving steady income and gaining the pote...

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May 01, 2015

Improve interoperability and data sharing. Stronger federal requirements are needed to ensure that genomic and other health data can be retrieved and compared across health record systems. Bottom-up, patient-driven reforms, such as giving patients (a...

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Apr 16, 2015

Hiring Makes Steady Gains –Supports Broader Economic Performance.

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Apr 08, 2015

Foreign investor increasingly seek United States real estate markets.

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Apr 07, 2015

©2015 Century 21 Real Estate LLC. All rights reserved. CENTURY 21® and the CENTURY 21 Logo are registered trademarks owned by Century 21 Real Estate LLC. Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. ©2015 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. Al...

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Apr 01, 2015

Traditionally, the majority of home buyers make a primary residence their purchase. However, some buyers purchase a vacation home to use for a family retreat or to purchase for a principal residence in the future, an some investors purchase a home to...

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Mar 18, 2015

The industrial real estate landscape is changing as technology advances and consumers demand faster delivery of goods. These trends have a profound impact on demand, as several percent of industrial real estate is rendered obsolete in the U.S. every ...

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Mar 16, 2015

Over the past several years, the market for U.S. commercial real estate has bifurcated, with pricing and funding liquidity conditions for “trophy” properties and other “core” assets differing substantially from those in the rest of the market.

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Mar 11, 2015

While real estate investing is increasingly global, property markets remain largely local, offering global portfolios a powerful diversifi cation benefit.

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Feb 17, 2015

Reserve Bank of St. Louis, consumer spending constituted 67% of the U.S. economy in 2013. And for decades, consumers have fulfilled their needs and wants by visiting brick-and-mortar stores in urban downtowns and suburban shopping centers.

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Feb 10, 2015

Christie’s International Real Estate is the world’s leading luxury residential network. Together with collective knowledge of its 138 affiliated brokerages in 46 countries, Christie’s International Real Estate is uniquely qualified ...

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Feb 03, 2015

Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) today reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2014. All per share results are reported as available to common shares on a diluted basis.

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Jan 15, 2015

$116 pb 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014e 2015f €bn European Direct Real Estate Investment Interest rates will rise1 The Eurozone will recover 2 The Eurozone has fallen well behind since the sovereign debt crisis of 20...

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Jan 10, 2015

Luxury residential real estate is property worth more than US$1,000,000 and typically owned by UHNW individuals.

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Jan 06, 2015

Well before “environmental sustainability” became a catch phrase, Trammell Crow Company (TCC) had recognized that prudent environmental stewardship was a fundamental social and ethical corporate responsibility. As a leader in commercial real estate d...

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Jan 01, 2015

As we prepared this 2015 Guide, there has been a significant devaluation of the Canadian dollar and a material decline in crude oil price and other commodities. These factors will impact costs in 2015. Accordingly, it is even more imperative to have ...

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Jan 01, 2015

America today continues to confront a competitiveness challenge of too little economic growth and too few good jobs. In the future America has the potential to create millions of good, knowledge-intensive jobs connected to the world via international...

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Dec 12, 2014

This second edition of ECN Review of Crowdfunding Regulation 2014our Review of Crowdfunding Regulation published at the end of 2014 marks yet another milestone in the work of the European Crowdfunding Network, its members and its supporters.

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Dec 02, 2014

JLL Global Top30 account for 64% of Cross-Border Investment into the Global300 52% 43% 41% 23% 29% 19%25% 24% Office Employment Cross-Border Investment GDP Air Passengers HQsReal Estate Investment Retail Sales Population33% 41% 38% 53% 60% 64% 37% 40...

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Dec 01, 2014

London accounts for 15% of cross-border investment in the Global300 $ Three-year volumes, US$ billion MOST EXPENSIVE OFFICE LOCATIONS Benchmark prime rents, US$/m2/pa FASTEST-GROWING OFFICE RENTS Dublin office rents have risen by 50% since Q3 2012 HO...

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Nov 01, 2014

As a real estate professional, you need to have a solid understanding of the home sale life cycle—from neighborhood statistics to the best place to find mortgage rates. You are a matchmaker and your job is about identifying the right choices for yo...

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Oct 17, 2014

The joint Office of Real Estate and Asset Development (“OREAD”) for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (“MassDOT”) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the “MBTA”), hereby makes the following amendments, additions, and clar...