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Top Multifamily Development Trends to Prepare for in 2024
Multifamily housing development has an unclear future as an asset class, with strong fundamentals complicated by a turbulent economic outlook. Market fundamentals have remained strong over the last year, stabilized by strong demand and healthy occupancies. However, the asset class may be in decline by the end of 2023 due to dislocated capital markets, supply…
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Real Estate Due Diligence: Essential Checklist for Commercial Properties
Real estate due diligence is the process that encompasses all the actions that go into investigating and analyzing a site’s potential risks and opportunities before a transaction is finalized. By conducting a thorough diligence process, you can mitigate risk over the lifecycle of a project, get an accurate picture of the project’s financial health, and…
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A Functional Guide to Cap Rates in Commercial Real Estate
In commercial real estate investment, there is no metric more prevalent than the cap rate. For transactional real estate investors, it’s a powerful tool used to vet prospective acquisitions, track income gains, and calculate returns. In essence, a commercial cap rate is a measure of return and risk on an investment asset. While we’ve said…
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NOI Meaning in Real Estate: Unpacking Net Operating Income
Financial metrics are vital for your development team to track, helping you demonstrate a project is financially viable and will deliver high returns. From the Internal Rate of Returns (IRR), cap rates, and Return on Investment (ROI), your team is likely to use key data metrics to show a project’s profitability to potential investors. Net…
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Commercial Real Estate Forecasts Show Positive Development Signs
Predicting the economic future is a real estate developer’s favorite pastime. The job inherently requires that developers assess future risk and predict with great accuracy the economic environment into which they’ll deliver a property. The practice, of course, isn’t foolproof. Developers breaking ground in 2018, for example, could never have imagined completing the project in…
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Mastering the ABCs of Student Housing Development
In recent years student housing development has become an increasingly popular sector of the industry. Developers and investors see a reliable, growing market in the form of undergraduate or graduate college or university students looking to live in residential properties located on or near campus that cater to their unique needs. These projects tend to…
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Summer of Sales: Why Retail Real Estate is Standing Strong
Despite six months of intense economic volatility, American consumers surprised economists by increasing their spending this spring. The Commerce Department reported that the value of consumer spending rose in April and May year-over-year instead of falling as predicted. Bloomberg attributed the upward trend to bigger-than-expected purchases in nine out of ten retail categories. Christopher Rupkey,…
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Know Your CRE ABCs – A Guide to Real Estate Property Classes
One of commercial real estate’s most complicated and contentious issues is the differences between property classes. Building classification can be confusing despite being a crucial aspect of urban development.
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An Uphill Battle: Achieving Equitable Access to Construction Capital
Earlier this year, The New York Times published a sobering examination of diversity in commercial real estate development, highlighting what stakeholders in the industry have long known to be a problem: racial disparities among real estate developers. Citing a joint report from Siegel Family Endowment, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and Grove Impact,…