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CREW Network Impact Awards: Impactful Influencers
CREW Network’s 2016 Impact Awards celebrate women who do double duty: achieve success in the male-dominated real estate industry and continue to raise the bar with the creative ways they structure deals and conduct business.
GSEs Increase Multifamily Loan Volume, Expand Initiatives
Why multifamily executives expect a strong finish for loan originations this year and continued demand beyond.
CFO Corner: Is Your City Future-Ready?
How High-Tech Tools Are Reshaping Urban Centers
Millennials in Motion
By Gail Kalinoski As the largest, fastest-growing segment of the workforce, Millennials are having a dramatic effect on the modern office. Their well-documented influence on technology, media and advertising continues to shape workplace strategies for those creative industries. Perhaps less obvious, however, is the long reach of the Millennial factor. In a bid to capture this powerful cohort, developers and designers are increasingly blurring the lines between traditional and contemporary workplaces and sometimes even between property categories. Take, for example, a four-building project scheduled to break ground early next year in Carlsbad, Calif. At first glance, a casual observer will…
Economist’s View: How Long Can This Go On?
We continue to monitor the U.S. economic cycle, using both a wide variety of economic statistics as well as what we’ll call qualitative “canaries.” Taken as a whole, these analyses suggest we are in the bottom of the sixth inning, with no recession expected until 2019.
Diversified Thinking
By Suzann D. Silverman, Editorial Director What more natural place than the CREW Network Convention & Marketplace to discuss the merits of diversifying commercial real estate management teams. After all, the remarkable women that have built that powerful organization geared toward increasing opportunities for women in commercial real estate and encouraging them to pursue those opportunities have, through their efforts, greatly expanded the variety of perspectives and opinions that shape today’s CRE companies. That can only be a benefit, as it helps a company better consider the needs of a broader spectrum of employees, clients and customers. It also introduces…
Law& Policy: The Transfer Trap
How to avoid excess taxes on real estate sales transactions.
Q&A with Matt Eggers, Yardi Energy
Eggers explains how companies are using green data to find cost savings and what types of benefits they are realizing.
New LEED Version to Spur Green Building
How USGBC’s new iteration of its LEED certifiaction program will raise the bar on increasing energy efficiency.