Uncategorized

Join CPE today for an intensive Twitter chat with corporate real estate expert Rakesh Kishan, as he delves into the mindset of today’s CFOs and reveals how post-recession business priorities are likely to impact corporate real estate strategies. Find out how you can better serve your corporate tenants and clients. And submit the questions you most want answered!

Live chat with Rakesh Kishan, president of consulting firm UMS Advisory. Tune in!

By Paul Rosta, Senior Editor When it comes to choosing cities for relocation and expansion, corporate real estate decisions frequently lead to the rich getting richer. That rings true for several industries that are today’s leading engines of economic and employment growth. Technology firms tend to gravitate toward the Silicon Valley; Greater Boston’s stature as a global leader in life sciences draws start-ups and giants alike. And the robust energy business favors Houston and Dallas for its corporate facilities. That said, the diversity within each of those growing industries, and the American economy as a whole, means that the situation…

By Gregory Fisher Headlines continue to chronicle the nation’s demographic growth of its minority populations. So it should come as no surprise that each new data release from government agencies shows the trend growing in momentum. For example, in 2012 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that, for the first time in U.S. history, more minority babies were born than white, non-Hispanic (non-minority) babies. Projections suggest that the United States as a whole will become “majority-minority” sometime in the 2040s. As the nation’s demographic landscape continues to transform, it is interesting to look at this national trend and see how it…

(investment sales for past 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2012)

(delinquent loans by lender type)

(change in U.S. commercial real estate under construction)

(U.S. retail market conditions*)