McNellis: Does WeWork at All?
Company discloses $1 billion losses in bond offering
By John McNellis
Wall Street’s biggest houses just hawked $702 million in junk bonds for WeWork. The junk pays 7.875 percent interest and...
Governor to Help Ease Housing Pain
By Todd Williams
In an effort to encourage housing production, Governor Jerry Brown has made a bold proposal to streamline the approval of certain multifamily housing projects that include a...
Five Trends that Will Shape Silicon Valley in 2017
By Lexi Gelb & Miles Garber, Polaris Pacific
While the world waits to see how Silicon Valley will change the way the rest of us live – from driverless cars...
Amazon-Whole Foods Already Rattling the Grocery Sector
By Wolf Richter
Here are the numbers since the August 28 price cuts.
When Amazon’s deal to acquire Whole Foods Market closed on August 28, the first thing that happened was...
OPINION: The Great Unwind Unravels Hottest Rental Markets in the US
Now in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, and perhaps a city near you.
By Wolf Richter
Averaged out across the US, asking rents for apartments still rose in...
San Francisco Passes Proposition C to Increase Gross Receipts Tax on Commercial Landlords
Commercial Rent Tax for Childcare
Proposition C—the Commercial Rent Tax for Childcare and Early Education—is set to take effect January 1, 2019, and increase the Gross Receipts Tax ("GRT") on...
Cheaper AND Greener?
One builder’s small steps yield big results to the triple bottom line
By Kara Overaa Gragg
We know that the construction business is waste and energy-intensive, so as general contractors, our...
Best Laid Plans Derailed: When Your City Decides to Adopt a Zoning Moratorium
By Amara Morrison
It’s every developer’s worst nightmare. Having invested significant resources in planning and design and submitting a project application to the governing local agency for project approval, the...
Bullish Case for Crowdfunding
By Lawrence Fassler
Most crowdfunding, or “peer-to-peer,” real estate marketplaces specialize in bringing to accredited investors opportunities in commercial real estate, a unique asset class that acts and behaves differently from...
Primer on Workplace Amenities
How to Leverage Your Competitive Edge And Meet the Needs of a Changing Workforce
By Robin Weckesser
Using the workplace as a tool to attract and retain talent while enhancing the...
