Perspectives
New York Tomorrow
“You can never step into the same river twice, since the river keeps changing and you keep changing.” The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus could have been referring to New York. He would...
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Office is the New Retail: A Dynamic Property Sector Faces Painful Adjustments and a Bifurcated Recovery
Despite wholly different market dynamics, the office property sector is confronting some challenging adjustments coming out of the pandemic that eerily mirror those buffeting the retail...
Perspectives
General Liability Insurance & Crime Scores: Caution Advised for the Multifamily Property Industry
Many insurance carriers purchase third-party crime scores to further evaluate an insurance portfolio’s exposure to criminal risk.1 However, crime scores represent another hurdle for multifamily...
Perspectives
The Small Business Reorganization Act: The Answers You Need to Know
The COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant “stay at home” orders that took effect throughout the country starting in March 2020 had and continue to have a significant impact on many businesses and...
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Premiums or Discounts? The State of Real Estate Investing in the U.S. and Mexico
Over Net Asset Values Who would not want to have a window into the future and be able to see what the value of real estate investments would be, especially when going through a crisis, as is the...
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Seattle Housing: A Case Study in Crisis Creation
Kelly Lyles is a member of a dying breed: the mom-and-pop Seattle landlord. Her kind has become the target of an increasingly radical city council that has slammed the rental housing industry with a...
Perspectives
America’s Sordid History of Exclusionary Zoning
In the summer of 1910, a successful Yale-educated attorney named George W.F. McMechen and his schoolteacher wife moved to an upscale neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. After all, McMechen had...
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What’s “Still” Special About Special Purpose Property
Introduction After fielding comments and inquiries on special purpose property definitions and refinements based on the original article “What’s so Special About Special Purpose Property?”1 It...
Perspectives
Mind the Gaps
The two issues brought forward by this column may not sound much like urgent real estate issues, but they are and if the industry does not mind them, it may miss out on important implications. The two...
