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Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2004 Sara Drummond |
The Affordability Question Commercial real estate pros find local answers to low-income housing challenges.  |
Real Estate Portfolio July 2000 Lynn Novelli |
Still Affordable? The affordable housing market could become too expensive for REITs and REOCs  |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Affordable Housing Shortage To overcome housing shortages, developers and nonprofit groups have been lobbying Congress for more tax credits or other subsidies that can support affordable construction. But faced with budget deficits, Washington has been reluctant to increase the amount of money spent on housing.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2003 Hunter L. Johnson |
New Funding for Affordable Housing Encourages Public/Private Partnerships Commercial real estate developers should stay abreast of affordable-housing activities in their markets as the number of opportunities for public/private partnerships for these projects continues to grow.  |
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2003 H. Lee Murphy |
A New Era For Affordable Housing The competition for affordable housing tax credits and related incentives is as intense as ever among developers. Project sponsors are searching for ways to stand apart from the mainstream: The gray, boxy apartment towers of yesteryear are giving way to eye-catching mixed-use facilities  |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2011 |
Outstanding Women in Commercial Real Estate From housing low-income families in Southern California to closing some of Manhattan's largest office leases, women leaders are using commercial real estate as a platform to reshape communities while they drive investor returns.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2007 Carolyn Chapin |
Affordable-Housing Awareness Increasing demand and rising costs pose challenges in this specialized sector.  |
U.S. Banker February 2006 |
Dwelling on the U.S.'s Affordable-Housing Crisis The housing boom of the last 13 years has lulled many people into a false sense of stability. Look past the numbers and one can easily find evidence of a housing crisis-and it increasingly involves the Everyman. The opportunity to address this crisis starts with banks.  |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2005 Morris Newman |
In This Star-Studded City, Mixed-Use Shines Brightly Anyone seeking evidence of the runaway popularity of mixed-use development in Los Angeles need look no further than the $3 billion extravaganza downtown known as Grand Avenue.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Robert H. Martin |
New Orleans' Philanthropic Challenge With hundreds of thousands of New Orleanians still scattered across America, homelessness and the lack of rootedness are felt intensely. Funders are helping to set the stage for transformation.  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2007 Doug Bibby |
A Stubborn Affordable Housing Problem While there has never been a better time to be an apartment professional or investor, there has never been a more important time to be an advocate for the creation of more affordable housing.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2006 |
Affordable Units on Tap for Silicon Valley Finding a moderately priced apartment in Silicon Valley is about to get easier. A quartet of San Jose multifamily properties, which recently fetched $74.6 million, will be converted into much-needed affordable housing units.  |
Fast Company December 2008 Ellen McGirt |
Edward Norton's $9,000,000,000 Housing Project (that's $9 Billion) The actor's "family business" has helped shelter tens of thousands of Americans. Now it is taking on the credit crunch with innovative financing and a green-building initiative.  |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Bad News in Housing If you're looking for bad news related to the housing market and its effect on the overall stock market, it's not hard to find.  |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Peter Coy |
Where A Slump Would Hurt Most If the housing market turns south, where is the economic damage likely to be the greatest?  |
HBS Working Knowledge December 19, 2012 Restinas et al. |
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States At a recent conference in Herzliya, Israel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel, and Charles S. Laven joined residential developers, non-profits, national and local government officials, and academics to brainstorm approaches to affordable rental housing.  |
Reason August 2002 Mike Lynch |
Building Crisis That housing prices have held up in the midst of the stock market downturn is considered a blessing by many economists -- and by the nearly seven in 10 families that own their homes. But it's a cause of concern for local pols and academics who worry for a living.  |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Peter Coy |
What's Your House Worth Now? Is the price of your house about to plummet? There's no one foolproof indicator of a local housing bubble, so the best approach is to evaluate the situation from many angles.  |
Reason July 2008 Paul Thornton |
Rant: The War on Renters In their attempt to "keep Americans in their homes," Clinton, Obama, and McCain have all called for the federal government to spend billions of dollars to curtail foreclosures. Makes you think the candidates are on your side. Not if you're a renter.  |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 James Warren |
When Counties Don't Stop Governing at the Border To compete for funding - and save their budgets - municipalities are doing the unthinkable: Working together.  |
InternetNews February 3, 2004 Roy Mark |
Coalition Targets Digital Divide A new group hopes tax credits will encourage developers to integrate high-speed Internet access into their housing plans.  |
U.S. Banker February 2006 |
Gimme Shelter The U.S. residential real-estate boom masks an ugly truth: Affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. Enter manufactured housing, an $8 billion industry that promises to grow by 10% a year.  |
Reason July 2006 Joel Miller |
The Politics of Sky-High House Prices How American government jacks up the price of owning your home.  |
IDB America February 2003 |
How to awaken dormant capital Several recent studies have demonstrated the success of microlending programs focused on housing in several developing countries, including some in Latin America.  |
Reason October 2001 Jeff A. Taylor |
Sky High Taxes Good tax collectors find new things to tax. Los Angeles County Assessor Rick Auerbach may turn out to be taxman of the century if he succeeds in slapping property taxes on several satellites...  |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Coy & Miller |
Is A Housing Bubble About To Burst? As rising rates in the U.S. send mortgage payments higher, demand may cool.  |
AFP eWire April 7, 2014 Andrea McManus |
Collaborative Campaigning -- Can We Be Friends Through Collective Impact? Calgary is a city with a ten-year plan to end homelessness and, it is one of the few such plans in North America that is actually working.  |
IDB America February 2003 Charo Quesada |
Housing for everyone? New approaches to low-income housing could help to solve the long-standing needs of the urban poor.  |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- Ignore The Bubble Babble Despite what the alarmists contend, U.S. housing prices will continue to rise in 2006 and 2007.  |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Kathleen Madigan |
After The Housing Boom What the real estate slowdown means for the economy.  |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2002 Merrie S. Frankel |
Manufactured Housing Sector Looks to Build on Improved Fundamentals Although it remains a small sub-sector of the commercial real estate industry, the manufactured housing market offers investors some interesting opportunities despite facing serious challenges...  |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Christine Perez |
University Appeal Developers and owners in the fiercely competitive multifamily arena are mining for gold by segueing into student housing. Three real estate investment trusts have been formed in the last 18 months alone to focus on the emerging sector.  |
BusinessWeek June 19, 2006 Frederik Balfour |
China: The Starter Home Is A Nonstarter The middle class is getting squeezed out of the country's ever-pricier housing market.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2014 Byron Moger |
Student Housing Stats Demographic and economic trends point to continued growth in this niche sector.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Anthony Downs |
Dissecting the Housing Bubble Question The most widely discussed real estate issue in the United States today boils down to a two-part question: Does a housing bubble in America exist? And if so, will it burst?  |
Reason March 2003 Brian Doherty |
Do You Know the Cost of San Jose? The high cost of low growth  |
HBS Working Knowledge November 12, 2014 Retsinas & Couch |
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform It is time for Congress to recommit itself to drafting legislation that will transform housing finance for the twenty-first century.  |
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2004 David J. Adelman |
New Course of Direction for Student Housing There is an underserved luxury-apartment niche near college campuses, and savvy developers are seizing the opportunity.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2011 Adam Hird |
Old School, New Analysis Consider these factors before investing in student housing  |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 |
Housing: Don't Panic Yet Soaring home prices are the last remaining problem of the tech boom. The extremely low interest rates that were needed to revive the economy after the bust set the stage for a rally in housing that's now reaching extremes.  |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
New Rules Coming for Fannie and Freddie The House passes a bill creating a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There's no doubt that accounting irregularities have to be cleaned up and confidence restored, but an increase in long-term capital requirements would be unnecessary and harmful.  |
Financial Advisor September 2006 Linda Keslar |
Destined For A Fall Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University, predicts housing prices will drop -- but he says no one knows how far.  |
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 Peter Coy |
Why Housing Hasn't Hit The Skids Low rates are a major factor in keeping the housing market stable.  |
BusinessWeek November 6, 2006 Peter Coy |
Boom! Bust! Boom? Check the history of housing busts. Some areas bounce back more strongly than others.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
Real Estate Revisited Have real estate prices finally hit bottom? As far as home prices go, the data says they have.  |
U.S. Banker October 2002 John Adams |
Of Housing and Helium Is the housing market a bubble waiting to pop?  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2007 Suzanne E. Mulvee |
Stay Tuned Will slower growth and residential woes disrupt commercial real estate's performance? Housing the Young and the Restless... Retail's Dark Shadows... The Bold but Hardly Beautiful Warehouse Market...  |
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Time to Cash Out? As home prices peak, consider all your housing options.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Understanding Economic Data: New-Home Construction Investors, by looking at data on new-home construction, you can learn how homebuilders are reacting to changing conditions in the real estate market and draw valuable conclusions that can assist you in making your own decisions about housing.  |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2004 Anthony Downs |
Expect Soaring Home Prices in California to Level Off California, the most populous state, has by far the largest economy and contains the greatest investment in real estate of all types in the nation -- so what happens here should concern everyone interested in any kind of real estate.  |