Spotlights

Are we at the bottom of the market downturn yet?

I usually hate to stick my neck out and predict the market too much because inevitably once you put it in print you will be wrong and lose s...

Appraisal Institute and MBREA present 2011 N.E. Appraisers Expo

The Massachusetts Chapter of the Appraisal Institute and the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers are pleased to announce the openi...

Analyzing Q3 office and industrially market bounce

Market bounces are truly rare. They occurred once in the 1980', once in the late 1990s, and now Q3 2011. Market bounces start at very low po...

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program

Public Private Partnerships have been increasingly successful in meeting the extraordinary costs of real estate development, most specifical...

Is the counseling profession an art or skill?

A prospective client the other day asked me "What is a Counselor?" The counseling profession has been around for decades but many real estat...

Escaping air from residential bubble inflate a commercial?

Occasionally, I've written articles about real estate "bubbles" and my conclusion has been that they occur more frequently, and with greater...

Vermont Chapter of the Appraisal Institute

Vermont is a small state of only 625,741 people, according to the 2010 census figures. There are only 250 appraisers in the state and the Ve...

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...