This December, on International Anti-Corruption Day, the members of the World Economic Forum’s Infrastructure and Urban Development Partners community delivered a strong statement on their commitment to fight corruption across the...
Good informants help beat cops find crime—sometimes before it happens. On the corporate real estate beat, data analytics tools act like cops sniffing out inefficiencies before they can impact the business. But they have another, more...
Sometimes referred to as “Houston of the Rockies” thanks to its booming energy economy, Denver is a city now unquestionably fixed on the radars of national and foreign investors. As the Rocky Mountains is the regional operations hub for the oil a...
There is no perfect science to investing in real estate. Whether pursuing a particular niche strategy for your portfolio or purchasing based on anticipated market fluctuations, the end goal is usually to increase the overall value. And while many...
It may be true that all real estate is local. But it is also true that real estate has become a global business. Yet the way that real estate is measured continues to be based on local practices. This is about to change with the work being done by...
For many professional services firms in Atlanta, the No. 1 consideration when choosing office space is recruitment and retention of talent. Decision-makers want to hook the best and brightest members of Gen Y. Gen Y or Millennials (born 1982...
Walkability has been a buzzword in the commercial real estate community for the past few years, and the idea that one can “live, work and play” in the same development or area has continued to grow in appeal. Consequently, many of the...
Good design has become a requirement in office spaces, particularly in forward-thinking cities like Austin, Boston and San Francisco. In order for a landlord to be truly competitive in these markets, they need to offer prospective tenants great...
Since 2002, the property insurance market has been stabilized by a federal terrorism risk reinsurance program in place through the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA). By providing a risk-sharing program for particular terrorist acts, TRIA and...
Advances in building and information technologies have brought a new "big data" analytics-based approach to facilities management—one that ushers in a new era of operational control, reliability and productivity for businesses and...
