Real Estate

In San Francisco, one and two-bedroom rents are down more than 11% since this time last year. getty While the rental market remains far from robust, two important factors — rent decreases in the country’s most expensive cities and rent increases in more affordable cities — suggest the coronavirus pandemic is causing a squeezing effect

Fresh interior paint is among the top three upgrades home sellers plan to make. getty Putting a home on the market can be a stressful time for sellers, especially when they are worried about whether an offer will fall through, timing the sale of their home with the purchase of their next house or if the

The perspective from an ocean-view ranch at Las Carcavas, a new development attracting international … [+] real estate investors to the Rocha coast in Garzon, Uruguay Rafael Botto As the pandemic’s long-feared second wave comes crashing down on us like a mammoth breaker pounding a cracker box coastal village, some real estate shoppers are looking

Principal at Morgan Properties, a real estate investment and management company that’s the fifth largest apartment owner in the country.  getty Since March, the economic impact of Covid-19 has continued to unfold globally. The rapid pace at which the pandemic has spread and global actions to curtail it are having unprecedented repercussions on the way we

Founder and CEO of the pioneering home hospitality brand, D. Alexander, and the Founder and Managing Partner of D. Alexander Capital. getty A few years ago, a thought came to me about the future of homeownership and hospitality while I was road tripping down Highway 1 to stay at a short-term home. I was trying to

The Miami development includes a 100,000-square-foot medical center with exam rooms, an onsite lab … [+] and pharmacy and diagnostic imaging. Royal Palm Companies The developers of a new mixed-use tower in Miami, set to open in 2024, weren’t anticipating a global pandemic when they came up with the idea for their latest project —

Ari Rastegar is CEO of Rastegar Property Company, a vertically integrated real estate company with a focus on value-oriented real estate. getty Unemployment levels nationally were at 14.7% in April 2020, reaching as high as 30.1% in Nevada during that month. The recent unemployment rates now are at the highest levels since the Great Depression.  However,

Time and again, agents cite culture and kinship as mattering as much to them in their choice of a … [+] firm as money. And money, even venture money, doesn’t last forever. getty How does a real estate brokerage succeed in the COVID-19 world? Of course, it’s about the agents who choose to associate and

Pre-covid, a table in an active adult community developer’s welcome center shows remaining inventory … [+] in various sections. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg BLOOMBERG NEWS Florida has had some well-publicized challenges lately, but homebuilders statewide are seeing a continued rebound of demand from buyers that surprises even them. Building company executives and owners I’ve spoken

Shot of Corridor in Working Data Center Full of Rack Servers and Supercomputers with Blue Neon … [+] Visualization Projection of Data Transmission Through High Speed Internet. getty In a nutshell, QTS Realty kicked off data center REIT earnings last week hitting on all cylinders and raising FY 2020 Guidance across the board, including revenue,

As we roll toward the half-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects on work, office space, and focus have been profound. Executives can now be found working out of what had been guest rooms, attics, or walk-in closets. The need to work in corporate offices, once considered indispensable, is now being rethought in its

Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm.  getty There is a broad spectrum of commercial real estate types to consider when investing. When the economy shifts or crises occur, multifamily has consistently proven its resiliency, stability and predictability. Multifamily is doing so again during Covid-19

DIVIDENDS CONCEPT getty WACC is an acronym that stands for “weighted average cost of capital” and this is one of the most important metrics we use in the REIT sector. The WACC is similar to the required rate of return that an investor expects from his investment in a certain project. The WACC is a

Wilshire Lane brokered the acquisition of 15 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn, which is occupied by one … [+] of its portfolio companies, MealCo. Wilshire Lane Partners As institutional landlords grapple with vacant buildings, and real estate startups fight for survival, one 31-year-old venture capitalist is betting his firm on the category bouncing back. Stealth until

Long Island City is one of the many reasons to bet long on NYC real estate. Ariel Property Advisors In the wake of Covid-19, New York City took an expected dive in real estate transaction volume in the second quarter of this year, dropping to $2.31 billion in sales. According to my firm Ariel Property

TOPLINE President Trump on Wednesday promised U.S. suburban residents that the value of their homes would not be impacted by crime or the construction of low-income housing after an Obama-era rule designed to limit housing segregation was ended last week, the culmination of years of deregulation effort by Trump and a reported appeal to suburban

Couple and receptionist at counter in hotel wearing medical masks as precaution against virus. Young … [+] couple on a business trip doing check-in at the hotel Getty Prior to the Covid pandemic, hotel occupancy rates were hitting record highs and average daily rates (ADRs) were rising. Now, with the possible exception of restaurants and

Dave Friedman is Co-Founder and CEO of Knox Financial, the smart and frictionless way to turn a home into an investment property.  Getty During a spring interview on CNBC, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said, “Housing has, in some ways, become a luxury good in America.” Let’s pause and think about that statement for a moment. Kelman

Real estate agents could have their license revoked if they engage in racial discrimination on the … [+] job. getty After a newspaper investigation uncovered widespread race-based discrimination in the Long Island housing market, New York has passed a bill that puts a real estate agent or broker’s license on the line if they are

Hasier Larrea is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ori, the creator of smart space solutions for multifamily developers. See space differently. getty As coronavirus lockdowns have stretched on, urban cores have been the target of a number of widely shared articles predicting the demise of cities. Too crowded, too cramped, suddenly unable to provide us places