Industry Contributors & Editorial
Tax Cuts to Bring New Regulations to Real Estate Businesses
By Robert Keasal [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will be the most complex re-writing of tax codes for flow-through business...
McNellis: Investing in Accidental Assets
By John McNellis Casting about in the cluttered basement the night before our firm’s annual Christmas lunch, I happened across a couple bottles...
The US Cities With The Biggest Housing Bubbles
But red-hot Seattle has first back-to-back declines since 2014! By Wolf Richter The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for October, released this...
The Rise of the YIMBYs
By Todd Williams [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite an undeniable housing shortage marked by skyrocketing rents, virtually all housing development in the Bay Area remains controversial. Be...
Rents Plunge in the Most Expensive US Cities
But many mid-tier markets are red-hot. by Wolf Richter In San Francisco, the most expensive major rental market in the US, the median...
BOMA 2017 Just Increased Your Footprint by 3%
By Dan Mihalovich In our earlier piece, “Office Tenants Pay for More Phantom Space than Ever,” we called out the landlord community, its...
McNellis: Murder on the Retail Express?
By John McNellis [dropcap]P[/dropcap]utting the black in Black Friday, the Wall Street Journal found almost no pulse in traditional retail last Friday, declaring...
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%...
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...
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...
McNellis: California’s Housing Crisis is a High Class Problem
By John McNellis [dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are problems and then there are high-class problems. Being unemployed is a problem. Getting hit with a huge tax...
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...
