Jones Lang LaSalle’s fifth-annual Seaport Outlook ranked the most prominent ports in the U.S., this year identifying the availability of industrial real estate surrounding the ports as one of three top features shared by successful ports.  The other two top factors include proximity to population density and improved infrastructure. As the top ports begin serving larger “post-Panamax” ships carrying double the number of containers, sites near to the ports are in great demand, with port-driven markets outperforming other top industrial real estate markets nationwide. According to the report, there are only 11 available distribution center spaces larger than 500,000 square…

Growth in the domestic energy industry is expected to create more than 3.5 million American jobs by 2035, including 700,000 in the next two years alone, according to industry reports from I.H.S. Global Insight. The same industry growth creating jobs is also driving heated competition for prime real estate – predominantly in a handful of cities where the oil and gas industry is booming. New research from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) indicates that the majority of commercial real estate opportunities resulting from this job growth will be concentrated in the following North American cities: Calgary, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Philadelphia and…

Fall means cooler weather, the changing of the leaves and the announcement of new products from the biggest names in tech. As a leader in the real estate technology space, we’ve compiled a list of some of the new tech you can expect to see in the coming weeks. Wearable Tech There has been a lot of talk about wearable technology, and this week at Europe’s IFA tech conference, Samsung introduced us to the Galaxy Gear smartwatch. The smartwatch is capable of making and receiving phone calls using voice control, sending and receiving SMS texts and snapping “visual memos” with…