Jeffrey Spivak is a research analyst for a national engineering design firm that specializes in the transportation industry.
The dominance of LEED—the world’s most popular green building brand—is facing two threats: governments are limiting its application as a policy benchmark and are pursuing other green building standards.
Top-selling master-planned communities continue to be those that adapt to the ever-shifting real estate environment.
According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, states that are now the most business-friendly are inland locales, ranging from Kentucky and Tennessee in the east, westward to Wyoming and Utah.
Despite some downward-trending market indicators, the forecast for the commercial real estate sector is decidedly more mixed for the coming year, depending on the market sector, according to Deloitte.
A recent survey of major cities on their greenhouse gas emissions showed the world’s best-known and wealthiest cities performing worse than megacities in less-prosperous, developing countries.