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According to Scott Crowe, Managing Director with Resource Real Estate, investors are underestimating the investment potential in Europe in the current market environment. The underlying commercial real estate markets have stabilized. If you have good, quality real estate, there’s debt available, and the spreads are very wide. It doesn’t have to be the highest-quality real estate, but stabilized real estate in a decent location. Where you have to still be careful is development, leverage and the periphery. It’s still too early to take that kind of risk.
CRE price recovery regained momentum in April: As the effects of the first quarter seasonal slowdown in investment activity subsided, commercial real estate prices advanced across the board in April 2013.
The adaptive reuse project gives new life to the high-quality, but long-vacant buildings, and supports city’s long-term redevelopment goals.
Despite the slow office market recovery, developers are continuing to search for—and find—new opportunities.
"Idea generation values a neophyte perspective; vision building is based on research and deep understanding. To generate fresh ideas we have been told to think outside of the box and then jump back in; vision building destroys the box and builds a new one. It does not play with the existing paradigms; it changes them."
Roberto Verganti, Having Ideas Versus Having a Vision: Harvard Business Review, March 2010
According to a new Global Office Report by Colliers International, rebounding global markets are aiming for a state of economic supply and demand equilibrium after weathering challenges in China, the U.S. and Europe.
For renters, Cozy is free and makes everyone set up auto payments so you don’t have to think about the transaction again. For landlords, the service costs $9 per unit after a 60-day free trial. “On rent day you can be making coffee in your underwear and the money is already there,” says Gino Zahnd, Cozy’s cofounder and CEO. Cozy’s secondary use is as a vetting process and application boost for renters who face stiff competition for rentals like in New York and San Francisco. Renters who fill out a profile can then share it with any computer-competent landlord (a hopefully increasing pool) to display your basic info like employment status and income. The landlords can then quickly screen for the best applicants, saving everyone time. There are no application fees and no tedious paper trails chock full of your personal financial details.
As an investor who likes tapping Class B malls and turning them around, Greg Greenfield’s last few years have been like “shooting fish in a barrel.” But those days have changed and the competition for those assets is heating up. Where’s he looking and what is he looking for?
With pension funds and investment trusts buying more warehouses and distribution centers, âtrueâ developers of industrial real estate are becoming harder to find, according to industry executives.
In 2012, the transaction volume was at $290 billion. The change between the two years represents a seven percent increase. In 2014, the number is forecasted to advance to $340 billion. By 2015, it is predicted to jump to $360 billion.
Londoners are increasingly becoming renters whether they like it or not after the U.K. capital’s average home price passed 500,000 pounds ($778,000) last month. With first-time buyers having to borrow more than ever and save longer to afford a down payment, leasing demand is set to soar, and developers and investors are building like never before. The Greater London Authority estimates households renting privately owned apartments or single-family homes will increase to 37 percent by 2025 from 25 percent last year.
Kimco CEO Dave Henry appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the REIT and retail real estate rebound
Retail real estate owners and tenants still aren’t quite on the same page when it comes to rents, says Transwestern’s Paul Barile.
There’s been a bullish uptick in real-estate sector buying amid all the selling going on. We canvassed InsiderScore, which alerted us to the trend, and thought the following buys so far this month in the sector are worth sharing.
