Resource Reviews

Resource Review – Making a Living, Making a Life

Making a Living, Making a Life By Daniel Rose, CRE (©2014, Half Moon Press, 366 pages) Daniel Rose, CRE, has had an extraordinary business career including developing Pentagon City in Washington, D.C., and One Financial Center in Boston. He developed Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts in New York City. He is not only an… Read more

Valuing the Leased Fee Simple Estate: The Answer for Ad Valorem Taxation Issues

Summer 2015, Volume 40, No. 1 By Thomas W. Hamilton, Ph.D., CRE, MAI, FRICS, CDEI  The real estate appraisal profession has for years discussed various types of ownership interests in real property that can be valued. Of these, the leased fee and the fee simple have drawn significant attention as to their proper use in… Read more

Resource Review – Placemaking: Innovations in New Communities

Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Spring 2015 Reviewed by Peter C. Burley, CRE Placemaking: Innovations in New Communities by Mahlon ‘Sandy’ Apgar IV, (ULI, 2014), 35pp, with Appendix Mahlon ‘Sandy’ Apgar IV, CRE, joins a continuing discussion on the effort to create healthier, sustainable living environments that enhance the social and economic well-being of those who… Read more

How Can a Developer Qualify for Capital Gain Treatment? A Recent Case Means New Opportunity!

Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Summer 2015 By Mark Lee Levine, BS, JD, PAP, Ph.D., LLM No one wants to pay taxes! Certainly this statement reflects the feeling of most taxpayers, be they connected with real estate or otherwise. Thus, as the title to this Note reflects, if there is a “legal” approach to avoid paying… Read more

Perspectives

Building a 24-hour City: “Just Imagine Real Estate in 2030”

Presented at the 9th RED Business Forum, Athens, Greece, October 13, 2014 It is an honor and a pleasure to be here today in Athens, for this very special conference. I’m taken with the conference’s overall title, “Inventing the Future — Invest in the Future.” The future is not just something that blows in! It… Read more

Real Estate Value Impacts from Fracking: Industry Response and Proper Analytical Techniques

Volume 39, Number 3 Originally Published: Winter 2014 By Richard J. Roddewig, CRE, MAI, FRICS; and Rebel A. Cole, Ph.D., CRE Photo: FerrizFrames/Shutterstock.com Introduction Fracking has emerged as an environmental and real estate issue in the past 10 years because of the enhancements in drilling technology that enable oil and gas to be economically captured from shale deposits in many parts of the country. Figure 1 below shows... Read More