Reverse Mortgages: Should the Elderly and U.S. Taxpayers Beware?

Spring 2011, Vol. 36, No. 1 Abstract: Reverse mortgages are becoming popular in America, and although they are only a small niche in the multi-trillion dollar banking industry, they have begun to attract the interest of banks, mortgage brokers, insurance companies, and Wall Street investors who are looking for new profit centers in the wake of… Read more

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Creative Counseling: Preserving the Hawaii Opera Theatre

Spring 2011, Vol. 36, No. 1 Abstract: In May 2010, Karen Char, CRE, president, John Child & Company, Inc. and Christine Camp, CRE, president and CEO of Avalon Group, LLC, both of Honolulu, were honored by The Counselors of Real Estate® with the 2010 James Felt Creative Counseling Award for their work developing and implementing a… Read more

The Value Proposition of Sustainability: It’s in the Eye of the Beholder

Spring 2011, Vol. 36, No. 1 Abstract: With the continued advancement of sustainability initiatives, both mandated and voluntary, has come the rise of differing sustainability priorities and measures of success attributed to the same asset by various stakeholders. The quandary for an asset owner then becomes how best to address these varying value propositions for maximized… Read more

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Demand for Warehouse and Distribution Center Space

Spring 2011, Vol. 36, No. 1 Abstract: From 1990–1995, the analysis of warehouse and distribution center space came into its own in real estate literature. Previously, warehouse space was considered a component of industrial demand, along with production facilities. In this article, the authors present a review of the literature by focusing on the demand determinants… Read more

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Information Overload: Emerging Academic Challenges and Their Implications

Spring 2011, Vol. 36, No. 1 Abstract: Like the real estate profession it serves, today’s real estate educational environment has responded to the information age, and students face a new basket of related challenges. In this article, an adjunct professor discusses common classroom pitfalls and their relevance outside of academia.

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Here Comes the Sun (…and Change…) (Editor’s Note)

Volume 36, Number 1 Originally Published: Spring 2011 By Peter C. Burley, CRE “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are …” Marcus Aurelius IT WAS AN UNUSUALLY LONG, COLD WINTER FOR THIS PART OF the country, and it seemed to take forever for the sun to warm the air, for the trees to bring forth... Read More