Volume 45, Number 1 January 8, 2021 By Ethan Blevins Photo: Cascade Creatives/Shutterstock.com Kelly Lyles is a member of a dying breed: the mom-and-pop Seattle landlord. Her kind has become the target of an increasingly radical city council that has slammed the rental housing industry with a barrage of new-fangled policies over the last five […]

Volume 44, Number 23 December 21, 2020 By Hans J. Vrensen, CRE, Dr. Dennis Schoenmaker, Dr. Sven Bienert, and Julia Wein February 2020: Flooding from Storm Ciara in York, UK. Photo: M Barratt/Shutterstock.com The CRREM project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement no. 785058. In […]

FEATURE Our Story: How My Company Developed Modular Construction with Recycled Shipping Containers is Advancing Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis and Environmental Sustainability Volume 44, Number 22 December 8, 2020 By Paul Galvin Photo: Hindrik Johannes de Groot/Shutterstock.com We constantly see headlines announcing this punishing housing affordability crisis – that the younger generation cannot […]

Volume 44, Number 21 November 20, 2020 By James Burling Photo: Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com In the summer of 1910, a successful Yale-educated attorney named George W.F. McMechen and his schoolteacher wife moved to an upscale neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. After all, McMechen had achieved the American dream; he and his wife were well-respected, affluent professionals, and […]

FEATURE Volume 44, Number 20 November 9, 2020 By Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE Photo: zimmytws/Shutterstock.com It is now nearly a quarter-century since the adjective ‘disruptive’ gained currency as a positive value, rather than referring to its prior pejorative meaning of ‘disintegrative’ or ‘misbehaving’. The popular embrace of ‘disruption’ as an engine of forward economic […]

PERSPECTIVE Volume 44, Number 19 October 9, 2020 By Ron Throupe Ph.D., CRE, MAI, FRICS; Eryn Throupe; and Jennifer (Fang) Dong, MBA Photo: CloudOnePhoto/Shutterstock.com Introduction After fielding comments and inquiries on special purpose property definitions and refinements based on the original article “What’s so Special About Special Purpose Property?”1 It is clear that further explanation […]

FEATURE Volume 44, Number 18 September 25, 2020 By Olga Kaganova, Ph.D. Photo: Josemaria Toscano/Shutterstock.com Why Now? The financial pressure cities are experiencing due to COVID-19 only amplifies the pre-existing historical underinvestment in municipal infrastructure and adds urgency to cities’ search for new sources of funding. Indeed, underinvestment in building new municipal infrastructure and replacing […]

PERSPECTIVE COLUMN Volume 44, Number 17 September 22, 2020 By Mario Lefebvre, CRE Photo: MJgraphics/Shutterstock.com The two issues brought forward by this column may not sound much like urgent real estate issues, but they are and if the industry does not mind them, it may miss out on important implications. The two issues are the […]

Volume 44, Number 16 July 29, 2020 By Deborah Cloutier, CRE Photo: Mameraman/Shutterstock.com ESG was listed as the #10 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is no longer an emerging trend, but a critical component of real estate investment integrated […]

Volume 44, Number 15 July 27, 2020 By Cassandra Francis, CRE Photo: metamorworks/Shutterstock.com Infrastructure was listed as the #9 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Infrastructure, the vital basic physical and social systems that support the subsistence and growth of global economies and populations, once […]