Appraisal & Consulting

The new retail: The new consumer likes experiences

The consumer is finding new ways to spend money. Bricks and mortar retail stores have evolved beyond malls and big box specialties and aggre...

Appraisal quality monitoring: A positive step for the industry

In November of 2013 Fannie Mae issued Lender Letter LL-2013-10 which announced a new process they were implementing to identify and monitor ...

International Property Measurement Coalition

In this age of initials and acronyms, I've got a new one for you - IPMSC, or the International Property Measurement Coalition. The brainchil...

President's message: Spring, I love it.

Spring, I love it. The Red Sox are trying to find themselves while still managing to stay within a few games of first place which provide gr...

The time to invest in energy efficient systems and construction is NOW

Keeping older properties competitive is soon becoming an expectation of the marketplace. As energy costs continue their upward trend, operat...

Foreign investors and "secondary" markets

One of the more interesting factors influencing the current state of the real estate capital market is the increased presence of foreign inv...

Developers bulk sale vs. slugging it out

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a consulting assignment for a large residential development community. Like many, the projec...

The parabolic curve of peaks and troughs: Where are we?

It seems that a while ago all real estate literature was pointing to a complete Boston Metropolitan area multifamily recovery from 2009 lows...

Geographical info. systems tools give life to real estate

We all know that "a picture is worth a thousand words." The same is true of GIS mapping results. So what is it? To paraphrase an Appraisal I...

Regulatory changes & impact to commercial property

The New England Chapter of the Counselors of Real Estate met March 25 for its second chapter luncheon of the year. The program, New Changes ...