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 owners and operators to overcome in the general liability underwriting process. Through interviews with insurance brokers and multifamily operators, they indicated that the use of crime scores in general liability… Read more

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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 their ability to operate at all, let alone to operate profitably. We’ve all seen the bankruptcy headlines, which have focused largely on recognizable… Read more

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 COVID-19 pandemic? Most financial institutions and major players in the real estate industry conduct surveys and develop… Read more

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Revisiting Residential Brokerage Fees in a More Technologically Advanced World

Introduction Anyone following the housing market understands that inventories of existing homes have continued to shrink, time on the market has never been faster, and often reasonably priced homes sell in one day. Add to this a huge reduction in labor-intensive on-site visits replaced by detailed video tours and a portfolio of photos, and the… Read more

Perspectives

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 barrage of new-fangled policies over the last five years that protect tenants at all costs, including the cost of landlord property… Read more

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Managing Climate Change-Related Risks in Global Real Estate

The CRREM project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement no. 785058. In these times of COVID-19, our perspective of time has changed. Therefore, it might seem a long time ago that we had river floodings after storms Ciara and Dennis in February, Australian and Californian bushfires, and the declaration of ‘climate emergency’ as the 2019 word of the year by Oxford... Read More