Spotlights

Making Affordable Housing work with Low Income Housing Tax Credits

The Appraisal Institutes Massachusetts Chapter held its third meeting of the year at the Federal Reserve Building in Boston on September 23r...

Averting the banking crisis number three

Banking crisis number 1. In the late 1980s and early 90s crisis cascaded through the banking profession complete with hundreds of failed ins...

Let's get realistic with respect to housing markets

Economic pessimism will get you nowhere. Clearly, there's not much to get excited about in local, regional, national, or international econo...

A lawsuit commercial appraisers might want to follow

Appraisers are facing an E&O insurance crisis - to be more precise, Australian appraisers, or "valuers" as they are called there, are facing...

Online continuing education: More compelling than ever

For over twenty years appraisers have been required to regularly complete continuing education to keep and renew their licenses. Continuing ...

The annual Appraisal Expo to be held October 24th in Norwood

Apropos of not too much, is it me or are big talented pitchers from Texas just not that bright? In any event now that we've had time to dige...

The Stubblebine Co./CORFAC International negotiates 3 industrial leases totalling over 132,000 s/f

The Stubblebine Company/CORFAC International Inc. has recently negotiated three industrial leases totalling 132,962 s/f. Formerly located in...

Greater Portland Economic Development Corp. formed-serves Portland, South Portland, Scarborough, Westbrook, Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth 6 communities

Greg Mitchell, Portland's economic development director, said that an organization linking private, educational and public institutions on b...

By Charles Reilly - Activity is strong, inventory of existing property is declining: July 2011 feels a lot better than July 2010

The "new normal" seems to be a popular phrase these days as the commercial real estate market adjusts after hitting the bottom of this long ...

Paskalis and Steingold of MG Commercial Real Estate sell 104,700 s/f building in North Central Industrial Park; Sweeney Real Estate and Appraisal assists buyer

Denison Pharmaceuticals will be relocating from its Pawtucket facilities into the former Liz Claiborne building located at 1 Powder Hill Rd....