By William Jenczyk, CPA Many property owners are unsure how to properly treat expenditures for the maintenance, upkeep and repair of their property. Are these costs for routine maintenance, in which case they are deductible against the current year’s income? Are they capital expenditures, which must be capitalized and depreciated, resulting in a deduction that [...]
Success, Satisfaction and Salaries – Women in Commercial Real Estate By Diane Butler 2012 CREW Network President President and CEO Butler Burgher Corporation While commercial real estate is a field dominated by men, more women than ever are now entering the field, despite the fact that pay and promotion disparities remain obstacles. Why? And what [...]
By Robert Mandelbaum and Alvin Minsk From 2008 and 2009, the averageU.S.hotel suffered a 13.2 percent decline in occupancy along with a 5.9 percent drop in average daily rate, or ADR. During this period, hotel managers were challenged to find tactics that maximized revenue for their hotels. On the sales side, adjusting room rates and [...]
An improving job outlook and a mild winter helped Americans shrug off high gas prices. Retail sales continued to outperform economist expectations, leading to gains in retail leasing. By analyzing CREOpoint’s crowd-sourced data, covering tens of thousands of news sources, online articles, forum posts and tweets mentioning ICSC and retail each day from October 15, [...]
Our construction and project management teams are seeing a lot more attention paid lately to the connection between sustainability and one of the biggest trends in the construction business: Integrated Project Delivery. IPD is not specifically about sustainability, but it offers a great way for design-and-construction teams to develop the most sustainable building at the [...]
Starpoint CEO Paul Daneshrad blogs about how changes in U.S. demographics are impacting the multi-family market.
Christian Redfearn, director of the graduate programs in real estate at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, weighs in on the abuse of IRR in measuring property value.
With the next iteration of Apple’s iPad newly launched, we’ve assembled a list of the good and the bad that can be expected from this new device: The Good The biggest feature of the new iPad is the Retina display, which provides the sharpest screen resolution on any mobile device available today. Apple has stated [...]
CREOpoint and ARGUS Software bring you the 3-day on-the-spot report from MIPIM, the next best thing to having been there. My key take-aways are: Cautious optimism pervaded (growing in direct proportion to number of drinks and lateness of the hour). Prime locations and properties are stil the focus of major investors. Secondary locations, not so [...]
Starpoint CEO Paul Daneshrad offers his opinions on the outlook for the multi-family property sector and his company’s investment plans.
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