McNellis: Murder on the Retail Express?
By John McNellis
Putting the black in Black Friday, the Wall Street Journal found almost no pulse in traditional retail last Friday, declaring that shoppers were instead flocking to the...
Housing Bubble 2 Hits Rough Spot in California
by Wolf Richter
Tripped up by “eroding affordability and persistently low inventory.”
Pending home sales in California, based on signed contracts, fell 2.6% in October compared to a year ago, the...
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
By Julia Angwin, Ariana Tobin and Madeleine Varner
In February, Facebook said it would step up enforcement of its prohibition against discrimination in advertising for housing, employment or credit. But...
Working with WeWork: A Broker’s and Real Estate Counsel’s Commentary
By Dan Mihalovich
WeWork has been in the news lately. From dominating the shared work space arena, to buying an iconic retail department store in New York that will serve...
McNellis: California’s Housing Crisis is a High Class Problem
By John McNellis
There are problems and then there are high-class problems. Being unemployed is a problem. Getting hit with a huge tax bill is a high-class problem. Not qualifying...
6 Questions About Oakland’s Commercial Real Estate Market And The Cannabis “Green Zone”
By Barbara Morrison, CEO & Founder, TMC Financing
Historically, the Bay Area and particularly the City of Oakland has had deep roots in technology creation and a robust manufacturing sector....
Should Landlords Conduct Cybersecurity Audits?
By Christian Leitner
A recent KPMG survey of businesses in the real estate industry showed that about 50% of surveyed organizations believed that they were not adequately prepared for a...
How Do We Create Meaning in Today’s Office Spaces?
By Sascha Wagner, AIA IIDA LEED AP
As commercial real estate costs continue to climb in tech-focused urban markets, competition for the right space remains high and for talent it’s...
McNellis: Housing Crisis Band-Aids
By John McNellis
Governor Jerry Brown just signed fifteen affordable-housing bills into law. A few might do a little good. Two senate bills will raise a bit of money. Senate...
Resilience and Real Estate Investing
Evan Reis, SE
Executive Director, US Resiliency Council
Evan.reis@usrc.org
www.usrc.org
Does luxury last?
I’ve traveled around the country speaking about resilience, making the case that building stakeholders need to better understand how the buildings...
