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Disney Declares WARA

A Collaborative Approach for a Complex Valuation Engagement and Its Daubert Compliance with Generally Accepted Authorities Accurate valuations of complex assets require a cooperative multidisciplinary approach. Users of appraisals would be best served if business valuers, personal property appraisers, and real property appraisers collaborated on complex assignments, rather than solving for a residual value outside… Read more

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Data Governance: Cybersecurity Oversight and Strategy for Commercial Real Estate

Continued from Volume 42, Number 2. The final piece in this series is Volume 43, Number 1. In our previous article, we explored operational aspects of cybersecurity.  This one focuses on data governance and discusses how it permeates all operations and what can be done to strengthen it. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute… Read more

Investor Primer: U.S. Data Center Market

Institutional investors are increasingly considering investing in a dynamic new property sector – data centers. Whether viewed as a subset of their industrial or office property allocations, or as new specialty property type, data centers investments can offer an attractive way to participate in the rapid growth of technology. This article starts with an overview… Read more

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Housing Demand and Immigration Trends

Research conducted by Norman Miller, Ph.D., University of San Diego; Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Indiana University; Paige Mueller, CRE, at Eigen 10 Advisors, LLC; and Michael Dinn, CRE, at Dinn Focused Marketing. Continued from Volume 42, Number 6: “Housing Demand is About to Change – Here’s Why”. Introduction A recent study commissioned by the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC)… Read more

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Market Value in Use is Not an Oxymoron

Special-purpose properties present some unique valuation challenges. For property tax assessments, in condemnation proceedings and even in mortgage lending, debates regarding the proper basis of a value opinion are common. A special-purpose property is, “A property with a unique physical design, special construction materials, or a layout that particularly adapts its utility to the use… Read more

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Housing Demand is About to Change – Here’s Why

Research conducted by Norman Miller, Ph.D., University of San Diego; Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Indiana University; Paige Mueller, CRE, at Eigen 10 Advisors, LLC; and Michael Dinn, CRE, at Dinn Focused Marketing. Continued in Volume 42, Number 8: "Housing Demand and Immigration Trends". The U.S. rental housing market has been a popular and, for many, successful investment during the past decade, enabled by a number... Read More