When asked if I would provide a Spring Preview article for 2018 it felt as if I had just completed the article I contributed for the 2018 Forecast, time seems to be moving at such a rapid rate. Then in reviewing my notes I
Most people don’t realize that 75% of all small business is food and liquor related and like politics, trends in the hospitality industry are felt locally. We elect officials locally for national positions.
As we enter the 9th year of the up cycle we continue to enjoy a real estate market unlike any we’ve experienced before. From the property management perspective, I can report that the industry is better, and stronger than
Last year marked yet another solid year for southern Maine’s commercial real estate market with early signs suggesting that the office, industrial, and retail sectors will remain healthy through the 4th Quarter of 2018.
I recently returned from Florida - Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra, Plantation Bay, and Ormond Beach (upper east coast). I was glad to get away from the cold and back to back Nor’easter’s.
Anchored by the Church St. Marketplace (www.churchstmarketplace.com) downtown Burlington, Vermont, continues to thrive in today’s changing retail environment. Since its conception in 1981, the 252,000 s/f pedestrian mall in the
In my 25 years as a financial advisor I have been asked by many clients how to sell investment real estate without paying a high tax bill. Today’s top tax capital gains bracket is 23.8%, including the 3.8% tax from the Affordable
We Americans have fought with our internal revenue code since 1913. But slicing and dicing income, deductions, and a dizzying array of business and personal credits is hardly the only way that Uncle Sam could raise the money he needs to pay for guns and butter.
Bud Clarke wrote an opposition to my article, “Appraisers as Intellectual Idiots.” At the very least I captured someone’s attention. Susan Mitchell, president of MBREA, praised mandatory licensing in her recent article.
The new Fed chair Jerome Powell announced the first rate hike for 2018 on March 21. Along with continuing members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), Powell represents continuity and consistency, accessibility and transparency.
