2012 Global Real Estate Market Will Be Reverse Image of 2011
BH
By Cushman  Wakefield NEW YORK, March 13, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- 2012 will be a reverse image of 2011,  for the global economy and the world's commercial real estate markets, according to global real estate services firm ...

Receivership Information - What it is it?
Detailed information about receiverships including what they are and how receiverships work, as well as how it differs from bankruptcy.

CEO bullish on multifamily lending
NorthJersey.com
Community banker Thomas J. Kemly,  president and CEO at Columbia Bank  spoke Thursday to The Record's Richard Newman about the degree of change of the ...

 A Commercial Mortgage Broker Help You acquire a Loan
Commercial mortgages differ from home loans as they require a home or collateral guarantee repayment. A borrower is not individual ...

Real estate rebound forecast, 2012
FBJ
Fresno County's top real estate brokers also expect growth in the industrial, retail, multifamily and apartment markets over the next 3 to 4 years. With home inventories declining, residential sales are expected to slowly rebound.

Multifamily redevelopment projects throughout the country are booming
Multifamily redevelopment projects are booming in many areas of the country.  Construction work is under way on the redevelopment of a distressed area...

The Commercial property investment market is improving
LA Times
With the economy stabilizing, commercial real estate investors have entered  several new markets, brokers said. “There is a lot of capital that needs to get out,” says broker Kevin Shannon...

Commercial and multifamily mortgages fare well
NOLAN.com
The Commercial and multi-family mortgage delinquency declined during Q4 of 2011, the Mortgage Bankers Association says, and an analysis from the FDIC shows us...

Property management has never been more Important
WalesOnline
Most insurance policies require owners of properties, occupied or vacant,  to carry out regular inspections. However, if property owners opt to manage sites themselves, failure to examine the fine print on insurance policies means ...

Multifamily building is the bright spot of construction
Multifamily housing is the most active housing trend in the U.S. today, in terms of desirability and new construction....

Multifamily cited in permit decline
The primary reason for the decline was a drop in the number of multifamily permits pulled, according to the report.  Multifamily projects have been leading the way in home building in 2011. Single-family housing permits ...

Leasing Property Can Be Challenging to Small Businesses
Leasing commercial property is challenging for a small business owner who is new in the market.  Small businesses are the backbone of the economy.  If you are building a small company, you know the challenge and the excitement...

New Study warns about the adverse effects of new accounting rule changes on CRE
A group of CRE and other  business organizations released a report that asserts that changes to lease accounting standards, which are currently governed Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), would have a negative impact on job creation...

Multifamily to to lead new construction in the US
Foreclosures still dampen the demand for single family homes throughout the country.   Construction of multifamily homes will drive the U.S. building industry again in 2012, allowing housing ...

Commercial real estate on the rebound
Richmond Times Dispatch
 "the good news is, multifamily sector has been strengthening since 2009. It's been growing each year," says Atkins, who is a commercial counsel and senior  executive with Fidelity National Group...

Property Management Companies- Added Value
For some property owners, inclusion of a property management company may be a dream come true. Property management companies add value to the property value...

Hanley Wood Release Construction Outlook
PR Web
The pace of new construction will be even higher due to strong trends in multifamily. As home ownership rates declined in recently, rental rates have risen, apartment vacancies have declined, stimulates demand...

10% of Non-Bank Commercial Multifamily Debt Will Mature this year...
RealEstateRama
$151 billion dollars of commercial and multifamily mortgages held by lenders and investors will mature in 2012, a 3% decline from the $155 billion that matured in ...

Commercial, Multifamily Originations in U.S. Spike 64%
World Property Channel
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Survey of Commercial and  Multifamily Originations, commercial/ multifamily origination during the fourth quarter of 2011 were up 13% over Q4 2010...

Avoid Hiring Rogue Management Companies
Property management partners are chosen so that investors can have the best position within the market. If you want to produce short and long term gains from your property management company, you need to be sure you select the right partner...

Demand for industrial and retail is rebounding, office space lagging...
Real estate brokers in the area, released survey results during a presentation that drew people to Wolferts Roost Country Club. The vacancy rate last quarter was 9.2 percent ...

Is Your Property Manager Working For You? 5 Ways To Getting What you Need.
With vacancy rates on the rise, it's more important than ever to maintain your rented units. Hiring the correct property management business can help greatly in doing so. How can you be certain you have hired the correct team?

Apartment  Owners & Residents Could Save Up To $3.4 Billion
Energy efficiency upgrades in multifamily buildings could save building owners and residents billions across the nation, according to a report released today by CNT Energy and the American Council for an ...

Green tenants for green buildings
eco-business.com
An eco-charrette, or a meeting between owners and tenants, goals can be made clear up front. By explaining the importance of performance goals, occupants can understand their expectations from the ...

Multifamily Shows Strength For The Next Several Years
Reports are in for Phoenix and surrounding areas and the results are clear.  Full Phoenix MLS properties search and information about ...

Multifamily is sizzling - Atlanta Business Chronicle
At the National MultiFamily Housing Council conference this week in Boca Raton, Fla., .. .

2011 was third-slowest year ever for residential permits
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Developers are finding better markets for apartments and other multi-family living options, rather than new homes. Among those who are in the market for new homes, size matters. "I think everything is shifting to smaller ...

Apartments Remain a Strong Bet
There is no doubt that multifamily real estate is the hottest sector in the industry.  Will it overheat? As long as problems in home-ownership continue, It is not likely,  chief executive officer of Real Estate....

Apartment Industry Releases Response To State Of The Union
LoanSafe
Though the apartment industry represents one of the few bright spots in the economy, multifamily cannot sustain its growth without overall economic growth.  That requires a steady housing sector. “We also applaud the President's reference ...

Fannie's Multifamily MBS Jump 50%
By Bonnie Sinnock and Paul Muolo/National Mortgage News
Fannie Mae's  multifamily issuance numbers for 2011 are in and they reflect a 50% increase from the previous year, according to GSE....

Renew or Relocate? Incumbent Landlords Willing To Sweeten the Pot
CoStar Group
Nelson Taylor, owner/broker of William Raveis Chapman Enstone in Providence, RI, said tenants are also leveraging the market to cut a better deal for themselves. "Many will approach their current landlords for lease/term reductions," Taylor said

Commercial Property Insurance Rates to Climb
BusinessWeek
US commercial insurance rates rose 2.8 percent in Q4, according to the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers. The increase was driven by gains in workers' compensation and commercial property coverage, said a...

No Danger of Overbuilding in Multifamily Until 2013
With the increasing popularity of multifamily properties , some industry pros are beginning to question whether the sector might end up ...

Creating Sustainable Cost Management using Outsourcing
MarketWatch
The Facilities Management journal, According to Kevin Stanley: "With cost-cutting still an economic necessity, the question of whether or not to outsource has never been more relevant...

Commercial Real Estate Broker - Benefits of Utilizing a Broker
Even if you have negotiated and relocated into commercial office space yourself before, a changing market and evolving company needs can make each new...

Best Location For Your Business: How To Find It
When making the selection of brokers to work with, be sure to find out how much experience they have in the commercial market. Be sure the group specializes in the type of real estate investment you're interested in...

Real-time Facilities Management Reduces Mean Time
Facility managers are bombarded with customer calls, maintenance calls, equipment monitoring processes, and paperwork— documenting ...

Property Management Blog - What does a property management company do?
Property management blog from the best and brightest in the business...

What Are The Reputations Of  Your Contractors?
The Property Manager can work either immediately for an owner of properties, or for a property management company, contracted by an owner to take care of the property over a...

Home sales decline, rentals up
Dothan Eagle
When occupancy rates rise, the number of potential renters declines. President and principal owner of both Century 21...

Property Management Companies: Discover The Importance
The HOA was created to help us take care of concerns of its neighborhood. However, many  HOAs are not equipped to take care of the particular ...

Commercial Property Managers - How to Manage Tenants and ...
EzineArticles.com
Tenant retention programs are a key part of the property management services provided by property managers to the landlords that they serve....

Interested in Acquiring a Commercial Mortgage or Development Loan?
By Marcus Selmon
It can be very difficult which is why an experienced Commercial Broker should be used to find the right lender for you. You or your partners need you to have successful development...

Multifamily and the World Around Us | Multifamily Insight Blog
Multifamily Insight Blog
The US multifamily market is poised to have a strong 2012 with modest rent growth and good absorption of new...

Multifamily Builders Could Feel Chinese Boom - Construction ...
MultifamilyExecutive.com
Apartment development is supposed to increase in the United States over the next several years.  It's nothing compared to what is reported to be going on in China...

Property Management, Rochester, NY
PressRelease360
Rochester, NY area property management company expands services to include... 

2012 job market brightens, but unemployment won't fall fast
USA TODAY
Thanks largely to a multifamily building boom — its ripple effects across industries such as furniture, steel and concrete. The future job outlook has brightened the past two ...

U.S. Apartment Market Meets Expectations in 4th Quarter | Property ...
PropertyManagementInsider.com
The U.S. apartment sector posted impressive growth of 5.8 percent in 2011 ...

Facility Management 2012: Is the Budget Free-Fall Over?
Buildings.com
Facility managers are cautiously optimistic about the possibilities and potential throughout 2012.

Tips to Improve Energy Efficiency in Your Office Building
HR.BLR.com
Determine how much energy you need at your facility and create a baseline of usage.  Identify where waste occurs at your facility,  Create a model of energy usage and identify any low-hanging fruit..

Smart building only works effectively with good Facilities Management
Construction Week Online
The company, which recently secured a contract for the building operations and maintenance said in an exclusive interview with, that facilities management teams were key to driving a building's efficiency. ...

Midsize Cities Seeing Need for More Dense Multifamily Housing, Expert Says
Noozhawk
Now, cities are also pondering denser multifamily projects, to house workforces and provide affordable residences. According to a local real estate expert,real estate developers and urban ...

Apartment Rent Heads Higher for the Third Year in a Row. 
USA Today
A n increase this year would make the third straight year of rising rent. More annual increases are expected as apartment builders hustle to catch up with demand....

Commercial real estate rebounds
Murfreesboro Post
Addition of multi-family units – apartments, town homes, etc. – comprise the strongest segment of development. “It's not the same as single-family...

How Companies can Outsource Facilities Management to Save Money
FacilitiesNet
To develop a  plan, facility executives should explore motives for outsourcing. Establish a methodology for determining and measuring the critical success benchmarks...

Cap rates key in valuing commercial real estate
The Coloradoan
Investors, lenders and commercial brokers use cap rates to estimate purchase price for different types of income properties...

2012 Outlook Positive for Commercial Real Estate
Utah Business
Commercial brokers are expecting to see positive absorption of office space with Utah's pro-business culture.  Strong economy, available space should decrease through 2012... 

2012: Better? More of the Same? or Total Economic Chaos?
CoStar Group
Multifamily properties will continue their streak as new demand will keep vacancies low and spur continued new construction. Property retrofitting of older...

Rental America: Multifamily housing mutates and multiplies
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Many architecture firms have shunned multifamily work for years due to the uniquely high costs of liability insurance and the rashes of CDCs in recent years, especially by homeowner association activists...

Renting Rages on as the New Reality
CNBC
For some, it is stress from the housing crash. For others it is the inability to get financing to buy a home...

Multifamily's Future in 2012
Multi-Housing News
Thanks to a favorable combination of limited supply and demand edging up, conditions for the multifamily sector are likely to be favorable in 2012...

MF in 2011: Moving Forward on All Cylinders - Daily News Article
GlobeSt.com
The experts agree that Houston's current state of affairs as it pertains to multifamily will continue into 2012 and even into the following year – so longs as jobs keep getting added to the economy. “I think we'll see a lot of the same in 2012, ...

Facility Management: Getting Ready for Moving to the Cloud
Area Development Online
Building managers have long been accustomed to the idea that their facilities required IT infrastructure in order to accommodate tenants in the Information Age. As cloud computing emerges as a new force on the IT scene, ...

Take-Aways: Knowledge, Control Strategies ...
PCT Magazine
The event, produced by Bed Bug Central, featured leading researchers and drew executives from pest management, hospitality, university, housing authority, and property management fields. The major take-away: Bed bug knowledge continues to ...

Analysis: US rental demand lifts housing sector
Reuters
There's strong interest in multi-family units and plenty of pent-up demand. With US unemployment at a lofty 8.6 percent, home foreclosures rising and property prices under pressure, more and more Americans have given up the idea of owning, ...

New homeowner association laws in Texas designed to curb abuses
Fort Worth Star Telegram
While he said the changes may increase the cost of a foreclosure slightly, "I believe HOAs' board members and property management companies testified over and over again that they didn't like to foreclose and didn't want to foreclose but needed the ...

Survey Offers Good News for Multifamily Industry in '12
Multi-Housing News
If their responses sound like good news for the multifamily rental business, they are—and many investors expect these conditions, which are being spurred by demand, to continue at pace in 2012 and beyond. The survey asked respondents where ...

Investors place hopes and money in multifamily housing
Daily Journal of Commerce
“Multifamily has seen a very vibrant year in 2011,”  “We're definitely seeing a healthy increase in transactions and sales volume. ...

Commercial property - Landlords under pressure
FM.co.za
“One blue chip corporate shaved R350m off its rental bill over the past 12 months by re-gearing its lease contract,''  He says commercial landlords are under increasing ...

November housing starts: multifamily starts surge in western US
Examiner.com
Multifamily housing starts in the West Census region of the US, which includes Colorado, rose 286 percent from November 2010, showing the highest November total in multifamily starts in four years. Single-family housing starts were up 18.5 percent from ...

Multifamily Construction Drives Housing Starts Jump
Wall Street Journal
US home building climbed to the highest level in 19 months and construction permits grew, with most of the increase in housing starts coming from multifamily construction. Construction last month increased 9.3% to a seasonally ...

Investors housing dollars in apartments
Gulf Coast Business Review
Multifamily, the drab investment of the early 2000s is now the investment du jour of everyone. Occupancies are growing locally just as they are nationally, and with the shake up in the foreclosure...

California landlords can ban smoking as new law goes took effect Sunday.
Allvoices
California landlords can ban smoking in multifamily units as new law took effect Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012...

Regular maintenance key to preserving your investments
Vanguard
Experts posit that it is necessary to establish a routine for yourself, and you will find the work is easy to accomplish and not very time-consuming Chairman of the Facilities Management Faculty of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and ...

Rochester, NY Rental Market Ranked Among the Best in the Country
Rochester Business Journal
As the year comes to a close, Rochester ranks as one of the top 10 best markets...