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Real Estate is Candy for Foreign Investors

We don’t really comment on the residential housing market because we deal in commercial real estate. However, there is something interesting afoot in the residential real estate world. Foreign investors have sensed opportunity in the falling home prices that have been plaguing the US economy. Last year, $41 billion was put into US residential real..

A Tenant for 3 WTC?

We will never forget the devastating events of September 11, 2001 and why the World Trade Center is such an iconic piece of real estate for our country.  However, just last week, Silverstein Properties secured Conde Nast as One World Trade Center’s anchor tenant.  Is UBS AG considering the relocation of its Stamford, CT investment..

This week’s Top 5 Apps For CRE Execs (that you should already be using)

Here are some of the best applications iPad has to offer for businessmen and women on the go: 1. GoodReader – an app you absolutely cannot afford to be without Essentially an app that allows you to store virtually everything you’ve read, and everything you will ever want to read, on your iPad. It supports everything..

How the App Store Saved My Bacon on Tour

There I was on a property tour with a landlord, my boss and my client. Unbeknownst to me my client comes up with about $75,000 of new tenant improvements. The landlord says that’s easy they will amortize it into the rent as long as they can get 6.25% interest. The client then looks over at..

The Force of Entrepreneurial Optimism

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Jim Blasingame, one of the world’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship, dishes about the “Not-So-Great Recovery” and decline in entrepreneurial optimism.  His advice?  Small business CEOs need to learn to balance the force of entrepreneurial optimism with the gravity of economic reality.  Adopt this mantra: “If it is to be, it is up..