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By Jodi Summers The savvy ones have declared low-risk, low-return apartments "the safest bet" through the cycle and "the new gold standard" for institutional property portfolios, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2011. Real estate authorities were surveyed, and the results issued in a j...
11/11/2010
By Jodi Summers In the U.S.A., existing-home sales - single-family, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops, rose 10% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.53 million in September, according to the National Association of Realtors. In the big picture, that’s up from August, but 19.1% below Septem...
11/02/2010
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By Jodi Summers Everyone into green building has a different opinion of what the greenest buildings are. This grouping is courtesy of Architect magazine, who polled 150 green building experts, as to what they considered to be the five most important green buildings constructed since 1980. As you ...
10/26/2010
By Jodi Summers To build awareness and demand for energy efficiency in buildings, we now have the “Green Building Opportunity Index” to assess the market for green buildings in the central business districts of cities across the country. As you’d expect, the coasts dominate. “The coasts always d...
10/19/2010
By Jodi Summers The BIG news of the last month is that the recession has ended, AND the government is giving us money to go back to business. The U.S.A. was a bit stunned and cautiously optimistic when the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that their research determined that the rece...
10/12/2010
By Jodi Summers Multifamily property in major metropolitan markets, like Los Angeles, remains the asset of choice for many real estate investors. Savvy buyers know that in many markets current prices are below construction costs…AND…financing for apartment buildings is at a 50-year low - with s...
10/06/2010
By Jodi Summers September was better in Santa Monica and the statistics are showing we have nothing to complain about. The old news was that, in August, sales volume declined throughout as prices inched up. Well, if you look at the number of residential properties that went under contract in Sept...
10/01/2010
By Jodi Summers There’s a lot of blah blah blah as to the recovery has stagnated and how the universe is on the precipice of collapsing into itself, that’s a lot of pre-election fervor. The experts say, “Fundamentally both the economy and corporate balance sheets are in better shape than reflec...
09/13/2010
By Jodi Summers This month, we’ll look at the big picture for multiunit properties – SMILE *< : ) - it’s all good. Apartment properties should continue to be a bright spot in your real estate investment portfolio for years to come. President George Bush’s tax cuts are set to expire on December ...
09/06/2010
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Edited by Jodi Summers * Residential and commercial buildings consume 40 percent of the energy and represent 40 percent of the carbon emissions in the United States. Building efficiency represents one of the easiest, most immediate and most cost effective ways to reduce carbon emissions and save ...
08/16/2010
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