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017 STR Report – The Hotel Podcast!
017 STR Report – The Hotel Podcast! Amanda Hite, President & CEO… … one of the most influential leaders in commercial real estate today, joined STR in Jan 2006 when the company had one office in Hendersonville with 65 people. She became president and CEO in 2011 and in that role sets company policy and…
Read More015 Leonard Nakamura, Vice President & Economist, Federal Reserve Bank
015 Leonard Nakamura, Vice President & Economist, Federal Reserve Bank We all know what commercial real estate appraisals are and that they are primarily a tool used by banks once a buyer goes into escrow on a property. But did you know that there is evidence to show that, at least in part, appraisals can…
Read More014 Agent Conflict of Interest?
014 Agent Conflict of Interest?  We tend to think of the relationship between time on market and price primarily in the context of setting the asking price – if we set it too high, it’s going to take longer to sell, or maybe not sell at all, OR if we set that price too low and…
Read More013 List Price & How to Maximize Sale Price
013 List Price How to Maximize Sale Price Darren Hayunga… … Professor of real estate at the University of Georgia talks about his provocative study that shows it is better to wait for a higher price because you will likely get it – if only your agent weren’t in such a hurry. The implications of…
Read More012 Housing Stock Woefully Undersupplied, Affordability Diminishing
012 Housing Stock Woefully Undersupplied, Affordability Diminishing Jordan Levine… … Economist at the California Association of Realtors talks about the state of the housing market nationwide and in California, observing that there is considerable house price inflation, but that the amount of housing stock that is turning over has reduced considerably.  As baby boomers are…
Read More011 Good Bad & Ugly – Totally Unpredictable Housing Market
011 Good Bad & Ugly – Totally Unpredictable Housing Market Jordan Levine… … Economist at the California Association of Realtors – an organization with over 180,000 members – provides clear insights based on consolidation of a vast array of public and proprietary sources of data sources regarding the housing market nationally and in California, in…
Read More010 Real Estate Cycle Monitor Report – Background
010 Real Estate Cycle Monitor Report – Background Q4 2016 Cycle Monitor Report… … using proprietary Costar data, Professor Glenn Mueller of Denver University explains how to tell what stage of the real estate cycle we are in across five major real estate food groups – office, retail, industrial, residential, hospitality – in 54 metropolitan…
Read More009 Historic Preservation – The Penn Central Case
009 Historic Preservation – The Penn Central Case Prof. Michael Tomlan, Cornell… … discusses the background to the now nearly ubiquitous presence of historic preservation overlays and ordinances across the country.  Though such initiatives existed beforehand, the Penn Central case that made its way to the Supreme court in 1978 served as the watershed for…
Read More008 Robert T. O’Brien, Vice Chairman, Deloitte
008 Robert T. O’Brien, Vice Chairman, Deloitte Bob O’Brien, Vice Chairman, Deloitte For a vivid description of the exciting developments that will change the way you consider real estate investment opportunities going forward, listen to Deloitte’s Bob O’Brien share his insights gleaned from his company’s 250,000 employees, and millions of clients… Today’s Podcast Deloitte University Bloomberg article…
Read More007 Impact of Immigration Reform on Real Estate
007 Impact of Immigration Reform on Real Estate Prof. Christopher Palmer, (Ph.D. MIT) Berkeley… … in the second part of a two part podcast about how the Federal Government can impact the real estate sector, discusses how immigration provides demand in various areas of the economy that are, to a greater or lesser extent, dependent…
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