Perspectives

Affordable Housing: The Same Problems, Only Worse

Affordable Housing was listed as the #5 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. In this era of political divisiveness, there are two things that most can agree on: 1) there is a tremendous need for affordable housing (“AH”) throughout America, and 2) there is a… Read more

Perspectives

The Consequences of Public and Private Debt on Real Estate

Public & Private Indebtedness was listed as the #4 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was on track for its first $1.0 trillion fiscal year deficit since 2009 and the onset of the Financial Crisis. The aggregate… Read more

Capital Markets: Revisiting Risk and Return in the Face of Uncertainty

Capital Market Risk was listed as the #3 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. The last three months have presented the real time volatility of the capital markets and how quickly debt and equity capital liquidity can stop flowing when risk and returns are difficult… Read more

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The Economy Beyond the Tipping Point: Crisis and Opportunity for Renewal

Economic Renewal was listed as the #2 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. As we reach the half-way point in calendar year 2020, real estate is facing a triple threat across the United States. We are in a public health emergency, an economic contraction of historic… Read more

Perspectives

COVID-19 and Real Estate: What Can We Anticipate?

COVID-19 was listed as the #1 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. If one thing is clear from the flood of COVID-19 news, especially news about the economy, it’s that we don’t know what to think yet. This is especially true for real estate, which lags… Read more

The Economy

2020 Special Issue Photo: ffikretow@hotmail.com/Shutterstock.com The U.S. Economy was in the tenth year of recovery and there were signs of some loosening of standards reminiscent of behavior prior to the Great Recession.  Now, the economy and that recovery have been turned upside down. We asked Doug Poutasse, CRE: How do we restart the economy - locally, nationally, and globally?  What percentage of the workforce will return... Read More