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04-20-12
In the new China, demand for housing for seniors is real. The country’s rapid urbanization is affecting China’s centuries-old tradition of multigenerational living, says Harvard’s Nicolas P. Retsinas.
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02-17-12
As long as lenders keep a tight grip on their wallets, the much-anticipated trend toward smaller houses probably won’t materialize, according to data presented at the NAHB’s recent annual convention.
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02-15-12
People are resuming travel. In some spots hotels are trading at prices that are above where they were in 2007. New York City just experienced record hotel occupancy rates this past May. As long as the market did not get overbuilt, hotels are coming back, says Greg Cory, principal of San Francisco–based Land Use Economics LLC and chairman of ULI’s Recreation Development Council. However, areas that got overbuilt are predicted to take longer to recover.
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02-14-12
The Sea Pines Resort in South Carolina, which received the ULI Heritage Award in 1995, has influenced planned communities and the way projects work to balance nature and development
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02-02-12
For a developer, receiver, or investor/owner of distressed hotels and condominiums having difficulty putting heads in beds, conversion to shared ownership is a logical consideration.
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01-27-12
Six members of ULI’s Recreational Development Council discuss what is affecting their market, including the prospects for the resort and vacation home industry in an uncertain economy, the mind-set of potential buyers, the changing nature of second-home products, and strategies for navigating the challenges ahead.
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01-26-12
Vietnam has arrived on the international property development market in a big way—and brought with it a strikingly international style. But uncertainties linger about the future.
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01-11-12
All completed in the past five years, these ten projects— listed alphabetically,—bring back valuable community resources from decline and neglect. The projects are located in San Diego and Richmond, California; Washington, D.C.; Spokane, Washington; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Jackson, Mississippi; Portland, Oregon; Wakefield, England; Salem, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.
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11-30-11
It's what everone will need, eventually. But what makes some seniors' housing projects succeed? Panelists at ULI's Fall Meeting in Los Angeles revealed the key attributes.
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10-04-11
Looking for different areas for growth, homebuilding firms like Toll Brothers and Lennar Corporation are pursuing opportunities that have synergies with—but may fall outside of—their core operations.