Perspectives

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

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… Read more

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Building Blocks of the Future

Our Story: How My Company Developed Modular Construction with Recycled Shipping Containers is Advancing Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis and Environmental Sustainability We constantly see headlines announcing this punishing housing affordability crisis – that the younger generation cannot afford homes, that nearly half of U.S. renter households are cost-burdened,1 and that each year fewer… Read more

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 achieved the American dream; he and his wife were well-respected, affluent professionals, and they wanted their home to reflect their success. But there was a problem. While his new neighbors were all white, McMechen and his family were all black. When... Read More