Features
Transforming Emptying Houses of Worship
OVERVIEW What declining department stores were to our municipalities in the late 20th and early 21st century, emptying houses of worship are today, only the challenges are more vexing. A tsunami...
Topic: U.S. Markets
Resource Reviews
Review of Artificial Intelligence: Applications Throughout the Real Estate Industry
Artificial Intelligence Applications Throughout the Real Estate Industry: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Going This book is an outstanding contribution to both the real...
Features The Jared Shlaes Prize
WINNER of The 2024 Jared Shlaes Prize: Build-to-Rent Homes: A Promising Solution to Chronic Housing Shortages
The below is a reprint of the article Build-to-Rent Homes: A Promising Solution to Chronic Housing Shortages, first published in July of 2023 and recently awarded The Jared Shlaes...
Features
The Future of Affordable Housing in the US: Global Solutions for a Local Problem
Introduction Amidst an ensuing cost of living crisis in many geographies, a higher for longer interest rate environment, and the sustained shocks of inflation resulting from the pandemic years and...
Perspectives
Zombie Malls – Part 2: Bringing Dead Shopping Venues Back to Life Through Multifamily Development – Parking is the Key to Mall Multifamily Development
Abstract As more retail activity goes online with Ecommerce and given the fact that the U.S. is over retailed, mall owners/developers are looking for ways to revitalize and monetize their real...
Resource
U.S. Housing – Major Sources for Analysis and Data
The health and trends of housing market in the U.S. is on the minds of most commercial real estate professionals, economists, and policy makers. For example, “housing affordability” has been on...
Case Studies
Bangs, Texas: Small Town Revival
The following is excerpted from the final CRE Consulting Corps report presented to The Heartland Association of REALTORS® and the City of Bangs. The City of Bangs, like many small and rural...
Perspectives
The State Of Commercial Real Estate Could Be A Lot Worse
It is well known that the commercial real estate industry, and most particularly the office sector, has been reeling from the double whammy of remote work combined with a 525 basis point increase in...
Perspectives
Exert Control Where You Can – “Property Taxes”
Commercial real estate markets are in a transitory phase, the degree being contingent on which asset class is discussed. Nonetheless, virtually all segments of the market are facing some significant...
