Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 6, 2017

CRE Industry Focused on Tax Cuts for ‘Pass-Through’ Entities as Tax Reform Enters Final Stretch The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have started work to reconcile differences between their two tax bills, including the timetable for reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. Of special interest to commercial real estate investors is […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 5, 2017

How The Senate Tax Bill Handles CRE Over the weekend the US Senate passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill in a vote that came down to 51-49. Among many other changes to tax law the bill lowers the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. …» Student Housing REITs See […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 4, 2017

Office Tenants Today Value and Expect Quality Connectivity A survey of 150 U.S. office leasing decision makers conducted by Radius Global Market Research for WiredScore found that a building’s Internet connectivity is second only to location in importance to tenants when seeking office space. Fort Worth, San Francisco, Washington, Houston, Boston and Atlanta, found that […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News – December 1, 2017

Buoyed by Millennials and Omnichannel, Holiday Sales Off to Strong Start Without any worrisome developments like a financial sector meltdown or a presidential election upset, and encouraged by a strong economy, American consumers turned out in strong numbers to brick and mortar and online shopping channels alike, giving retailers an encouraging start to the 2017 […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News – November 30, 2017

New to Market: 6 Projects You Need to Know There are a lot of cranes operating in Arizona as developers pursue new projects that are creating a more diverse state. Here are six projects that were recently finished or broke ground in Arizona, as seen in the November/December issue of AZRE magazine. …» Nordstrom Rack Setting […]

Commercial Real Estate & Business News – November 29, 2017

Apple Might be Leasing Chrysler’s Old Proving Grounds for Self-Driving Car Testing Apple appears to be leasing a former Fiat Chrysler-owned proving grounds in Surprise to test autonomous vehicles, according to the vehicle news website Jalopnik. The tech behemoth Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) has been recruiting automotive test engineers and technicians from other proving grounds […]