Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 19, 2018
Six Takeaways from the NMHC Apartment Strategies Outlook Conference For the multifamily sector, 2018 should be a healthy year. Demand is strong-and it will be for some time. That was largely the message at the National Multifamily Housing Council’s annual Apartment Strategies Outlook Conference, held this week in Orlando. However, the optimism at the conference […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 18, 2018
Retail Sales to Grow 3% Annually through 2021; Store Openings to Outpace Closures Retail industry sales are expected to remain on the upswing for the next several years and so are store openings. A new report by Zebra Technologies, conducted with IHL Group, projects that retail industry sales in North America and EMEA regions (Europe, […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 17, 2018
Seven Predictions for the Multifamily Sector in 2018 “Stable.” That’s the one word that encapsulates the anticipated state of the multifamily sector this year, according to Greg Willett, chief economist at RealPage, a Richardson, Texas-based firm which provides property management software solutions. That was also the sentiment expressed by other industry experts as well, when […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 16, 2018
No Joke. It Really Is Different This Time … Right? Saying “it’s different this time” has long been a surefire way to elicit a laugh with an audience of commercial real estate professionals. After all, there are few things more certain than the cyclicality of the industry. Many of today’s leaders cut their teeth by […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 15, 2018
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Economy Watch: Retail Sales Gain Ground in December U.S. retail and food service sales gained 0.4 percent compared with November […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – January 12, 2018
Five Predictions for the Office Sector in 2018 At the end of 2017, the office sector continued to experience a slowdown. There was a 50 percent year-over-year decline in investment sales volume in November, though there was also a 4.1 percent year-over-year increase in pricing, according to a report from New York City-based research firm […]