A Review of Potential Community and Real Estate Impacts from the Rush to Frack

Volume 39, Number 2 Originally Published: Fall 2014 By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Esq. The proliferation of high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, to extract natural gas from previously unreachable shale deposits, has exploded as a potent policy debate over recent years. Fracking’s negative effects on surrounding communities have inflamed a grassroots political… Read more

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Weathering the Storms with the Lights On: Creating a Reliable and Resilient 21st Century Transmission Grid

Volume 39, Number 2 Fall 2014 By David K. Richter, Esq. Introduction “The United States is a superpower with a third-world transmission grid.”[1] That was the critical but, for the most part, accurate evaluation provided by then Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson in 2003 after the August 14, 2003 blackout left more than 50 million… Read more

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Power Lines and Property Prices

Volume 39, Number 2 Fall 2014 By Richard J. Roddewig, CRE, MAI, FRICS, and Charles T. Brigden, CRE, ASA, FRICS The Power Industry Transformation The American electricity generating industry has experienced a radical transformation during the past 20 years. Once a tightly regulated public utility consisting of a small number of large cap companies operating… Read more

The Boom and Bust of the Greek Housing Market

Volume 39, Number 1 Spring 2014 By Nicholas Chatzitsolis, CRE, FRICS, and Prodromos Vlamis, Ph.D. Introduction The Greek residential market (and the Greek property market in general) has always been one of the pillars of economic growth in Greece. Since the early 1950s the development industry has been one of the major contributors to and… Read more

REVIEW: The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

Spring 2014, Vol. 39, No. 1 Abstract: Not often does a book reviewed in Real Estate Issues get a “thumbs down,” but reviewer Roy J. Schneiderman, CRE, FRICS, recommends “giving a pass” to this one. “The End of the Suburbs presents a fairly superfi cial treatment of the issues, where all roads lead to “the end of the… Read more

Resource Reviews

REVIEW: The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

Resource Review of The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley (© 2013, Brookings Institution Press, 288 pages) Reliant on shared funds, grants and direct expenditures from federal sources, the next big ideas in many parts of the country are being reduced in scale or abandoned altogether. In more aggressive settings, the ideas are being retooled... Read More