06
Dec
2017
To Stop a Shutdown, Congress Needs to Pass Funding Measure This Week
Posted On December 6, 2017  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress have focused most of their attention in recent weeks on passing tax reform. Those efforts have been successful so far, yielding a pair of bills that will now be considered in a conference committee. Meanwhile, though, another concern is looming: […]

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05
Dec
2017
Where Are the Real Estate Jobs?
Posted On December 5, 2017  By Susan M. Phillips  And has No Comment

Unemployment today is at lows last experienced in the 2006 to early 2008 period, a period when the competitive real estate job market caused compensation to skyrocket with equity offers on top of salary and bonuses, says the SelectLeaders Job Barometer. Compensation has fully returned to […]

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29
Nov
2017
Avoiding Wasted Time and Materials in a High-cost Development Cycle
Posted On November 29, 2017  By Afshan Barshan  And has No Comment

Development prices continue to rise. Labor is in short supply. Land is selling at top-of-the-market prices, and there are no good deals to be found for steel, glass or concrete. So what’s a developer to do? The answer isn’t going to be found in non-negotiable hard […]

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27
Nov
2017
Real Estate Industry Hiring Turns from Growth to Managing Assets
Posted On November 27, 2017  By Susan M. Phillips  And has No Comment

Want to predict the next real estate correction? When more than a quarter of all commercial real estate job openings are in property and asset management and acquisitions and development decline to less than 10 percent of all real estate jobs, it is a sign that […]

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20
Nov
2017
Delivering on Holiday Retail Expectations
Posted On November 20, 2017  By Brielle Scott  And has No Comment

As e-commerce activity continues to surge, retailers are forced to keep up with consumer demand by growing their sprawling networks of warehouses, fulfillment centers and last-mile logistics facilities to deliver the goods. E-commerce remains the fastest-growing retail category, rising 14.3 percent from 2015 and well above […]

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17
Nov
2017
Taming the Package Tsunami: Amazon Lockers and the Last Mile
Posted On November 17, 2017  By Jennifer LeFurgy, Ph.D.  And has No Comment

Apartment property managers have witnessed the surge of e-commerce firsthand: with an overwhelming deluge of packages delivered to their residents. In the spring 2016 issue of Development magazine, Ron Derven explained how each package resulted in 10 minutes of lost productivity for a property manager as […]

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15
Nov
2017
NAIOP Chapter Leaders Strategize Effective Advocacy Strategies
Posted On November 15, 2017  By Rich Tucker  And has No Comment

NAIOP members from across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic gathered in Pittsburgh this week for an annual legislative summit to discuss ways to execute effective advocacy strategies. It’s crucial that chapters engage in the political process. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,” NAIOP […]

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13
Nov
2017
“Alexa, Do My Christmas Shopping.”
Posted On November 13, 2017  By Brielle Scott  And has No Comment

While mobile shopping continues to loom large in holiday retail forecasts, there’s another disruption making its voice (literally) heard this season: voice-activated shopping. While Apple’s Siri and similar voice-enabled technology has existed for years now, Amazon has found a sweet spot in linking these robotic assistants […]

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10
Nov
2017
Four Ways the Cloud is Forever Changing Data Center Real Estate
Posted On November 10, 2017  By Bo Bond  And has No Comment

The clouds are shifting — and the future of data center real estate is looking a lot more global and automated. The shift to global data center footprints and artificial intelligence (AI) is helping the data center industry become more efficient and keep up with the […]

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08
Nov
2017
Next Wave of CRE Tech: Harnessing Data to Unlock Value
Posted On November 8, 2017  By Diane Vrkic  And has No Comment

The CRE tech revolution is underway, and the industry is coming to terms with the critical need for data-driven organizations, teams and results. The current tech landscape enables financial data to be aggregated into a single, company-wide system of record rather than compiling disparate data from […]

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