Perspectives

Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Disruption was listed as the #4 issue in the 2022-23 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. “Critical site selection has driven decisions in unprecedented ways. Delayed supply chain concerns are an unknown factor for developers, who are adding several months to their schedules.” It may not come as… Read more

Perspectives

Hybrid Work and the “Great Decentralization”: A Correction Towards Resiliency?

Hybrid work was listed as the #3 issue in the 2022-23 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. “Current decentralization pressures and the potential for property devaluation are sure to keep the entire financial sector on guard during the evolution of the next few years.” In the aftermath of the pandemic,… Read more

Geopolitical Risk: Political, Capital Markets and Real Estate Uncertainty

Geopolitical Risk was listed as the #2 issue in the 2022-23 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. “With continued political uncertainty providing significant headwinds, the ultimate impact on commercial real estate will be greater than if the political risk didn’t exist.  The longer it takes to moderate, the more the… Read more

Perspectives

Inflation and Interest Rates: Some Clarity To Mixed Macroeconomic Signals

Inflation and Interest Rates was listed as the #1 issue in the 2022-23 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. “The proximate threats to continued economic growth remain the pandemic and policy error.” Executive Summary Having focused on its mandate for maximum employment, the U.S. Federal Reserve is now singularly focused on… Read more

Case Studies

Increasing Spokane’s Housing Supply

The following is excerpted from the executive summary of the final CRE Consulting Corps report presented to the Spokane Association of REALTORS®. The Spokane Association of REALTORS® (SAR) and Spokane public and private sector groups have been studying the growing problem of housing demand, lack of sufficient inventory of available units, diversity of product and… Read more

Features

CRE® Foundation Funds Game-Changing Stormwater Management Study

Study in collaboration with Colliers Engineering & Design. Executive Summary In the early 1950s when the United States Department of Agricultural Soil Conservation Service (“USDA SCS”) Curve Number Method was introduced, there were essentially two types of watersheds under consideration, rain-fed agricultural fields and forests. Forest may not have the Hortonian overland runoff condition that an agricultural field has. It has a tree... Read More