The underlying goal of this article is to highlight issues in current smart city approaches, find common success factors of established projects and to create a framework based on these findings, which should lay ground for future smart city concepts and research. There are 31,700,000 results on Google if one searches for the keyword pair […]
Special Issue – Global Real Estate Published: Spring 2017 By William P.J. McCarthy, CRE Smart Growth refers to urban design and transportation planning agendas which its adherents believe create vibrant, high density urban centers with an ever decreasing dependency on the automobile. Smart Growth is promoted as a panacea for an increasingly wide range of urban […]
Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Summer 2015 By Hugh F. Kelly, Ph.D., CRE Presented at the 9th RED Business Forum, Athens, Greece, October 13, 2014 It is an honor and a pleasure to be here today in Athens, for this very special conference. I’m taken with the conference’s overall title, “Inventing the Future — Invest in […]
Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Summer 2015 By Joseph J. Maraziti, Jr., Esq., CRE, and Joanne Vos, Esq. Photo: Kostas Koutsaftikis/Shutterstock.com In 2013, a New Jersey appellate court temporarily ended the long standing debate of whether a statute of limitations applies to contribution claims brought under the State of New Jersey law which governs liability for […]
Making a Living, Making a Life By Daniel Rose, CRE (©2014, Half Moon Press, 366 pages) Daniel Rose, CRE, has had an extraordinary business career including developing Pentagon City in Washington, D.C., and One Financial Center in Boston. He developed Manhattan Plaza for the Performing Arts in New York City. He is not only an icon […]
Summer 2015, Volume 40, No. 1 By Thomas W. Hamilton, Ph.D., CRE, MAI, FRICS, CDEI The real estate appraisal profession has for years discussed various types of ownership interests in real property that can be valued. Of these, the leased fee and the fee simple have drawn significant attention as to their proper use in […]
Placemaking: Innovations in New Communities by Mahlon ‘Sandy’ Apgar IV, (ULI, 2014), 35pp, with Appendix Mahlon ‘Sandy’ Apgar IV, CRE, joins a continuing discussion on the effort to create healthier, sustainable living environments that enhance the social and economic well-being of those who reside within them. The literature has been fairly extensive, particularly over the […]
Volume 40, Number 1 Published: Summer 2015 By Mark Lee Levine, BS, JD, PAP, Ph.D., LLM No one wants to pay taxes! Certainly this statement reflects the feeling of most taxpayers, be they connected with real estate or otherwise. Thus, as the title to this Note reflects, if there is a “legal” approach to avoid paying […]
by Thomas Piketty (© 2014, Harvard University Press, 696 pages) REVIEWED BY MAHLON APGAR IV, CRE, FRICS By the time readers have read this, Capital in the 21st Century will have become its publisher’s most popular title ever. Author Thomas Piketty already has emerged from relative obscurity in the French Academy to become an international […]
INTRODUCTION The rise in vehicle sales has brought about a recovery in the auto industry. While this has a generally positive influence on the value of the real estate from which dealers operate, the ramifications of the industry’s recovery on landlords is somewhat complex. Understanding how the boom in an industry can have negative consequences […]
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