Henry Grabar wrote an article for Slate titled How Condo Buildings End: Aggressive developers looking for a way in—or desperate homeowners looking for a way out (August 4, 2015).
Continue reading “Making condos is easy. Unmaking condos is hard”Microsoft Excel for Real Estate
Spencer Burton wrote an article for A.CRE (Adventures in Commercial Real Estate) titled The Definitive Guide to Microsoft Excel for Real Estate.
Continue reading “Microsoft Excel for Real Estate”More Americans Are Leaving Cities
Marie Patino, Aaron Kessler and Sarah Holder wrote an article for Bloomberg, April 26, 2021 titled More Americans Are Leaving Cities, But Don’t Call It an Urban Exodus
Continue reading “More Americans Are Leaving Cities”Doomsday Capitalists
Julie Turkewitz wrote an article for the New York Times titled A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists.
« Mr. Hall has converted a former military nuclear missile vault into a luxury condominium built 15 stories into the Earth’s crust. He is a leader among a new group of real estate developers investing in the nation’s central prairies and Western foothills: doomsday capitalists. » Continue reading “Doomsday Capitalists”
Stratechery analysis of the WeWork IPO
Ben Thompson of Stratechery wrote an analysis of the WeWork IPO.
« WeWork’s offering transforms real estate into a variable cost for all kinds of companies, with benefits that roughly mirror public clouds. » Continue reading “Stratechery analysis of the WeWork IPO”
FHA loosens condominium mortgage rules
A Wall Street Journal article on Aug 14, 2019 titled U.S. Will Back More Condominium Loans Aimed at First-Time Buyers reports on loosening FHA rules. Continue reading “FHA loosens condominium mortgage rules”
WeWork – 2 commentaries
A couple of insightful, unflattering articles about WeWork… Continue reading “WeWork – 2 commentaries”
The retail crisis is now a landlord crisis
Vanessa Quirk interviewed Mark Pilkington, author of Retail Therapy, Why the Retail Industry’s Broken and What Can Be Done to Fix It. Continue reading “The retail crisis is now a landlord crisis”