San Francisco-based seismic engineer Peter Yanev, writing in an op-ed in the New York Times in response to the 2010 earthquake in Chile, says there is, essentially, no such thing as an earthquake-proof building...
Dreaming of that CEO chair? You probably want to know how much you’d get paid. To help you figure out whether all the responsibility would be worth it, Charlottesville, Va.-based research firm SNL Real Estate has published a compensation...
We’ve all read about the new Millennial wave that’s going to take over home-buying in residential real estate. The not-so-new story is that Millennials are the next home buyers and we’ve all got to keep up with the technology in order to close th...
Lending activity for commercial real estate remains robust with an improved (or improving) economy and persistently low interest rates. With many CMBS loans maturing — estimated at approximately $300 billion between the years 2015 and 2017 — refi...
Perhaps more so than any other industry, oil and its pricing volatility impacts all elements of the U.S. economy, both positively and negatively. Looking at it from a macroeconomic level, higher oil prices are good for some industries, and yet ba...
High street assets have become a must-have among retail real estate investors in the past year or two, and U.S. cities certainly have no shortage of well-trafficked strips. However, to make the task of identifying the most attractive opportunities...
The good news for U.S. property developers is that the cost of construction disputes in the past year has gone down, claims the 2015 “Global Construction Disputes” report from Arcadis, a global design and consultancy firm. The firm...
In spite of some recent glitches, the U.S. industrial property sector has been going strong in the past year, welcoming both new tenants and investors. But as is often the case, it can be a little complicated to figure out which markets may be...
As major global tech companies like Google and Facebook gobble up office buildings and plan new construction, Twitter is bucking the trend by continuing to lease office space, albeit in the coolest new buildings around. But why the penchant...
The condominiums at the Visionaire in New York City start at $690,000. The amenities include a 2,075-sq.-ft. rooftop garden with more than 160 species of ornamental plants, including vertical screens for climbing vegetables and a fruit orchard wi...
