As cities both large and small transition from manufacturing-based to service-oriented economies, municipal officials are forced to decide whether a site will be prepped for resale to another industrial user or if it should be remediated for residential development and commercial business. Read more to learn what a ULI panel told the city of Indianapolis to do with a well-sited vacant GM property.
Despite the considerable amount of private equity capital held by opportunity funds, institutional investors, foreign entities, REITs, and high-net-worth investors, all parties appear to be sticking with core assets instead of broadening their investment horizons, say panelists at a recent ULI capital markets conference in New York City. Learn what advice they have for investors in 2011.
A considerable amount of private equity capital is looking for investment opportunities in commercial real estate—and this is expected to increase investment activity in 2011, according to Bob White, founder and president of Real Capital Analytics. Learn what else he told attendees during the opening presentation at ULI’s “Real Estate Finance and Investment 2011” conference in New York City.
Greta Guggenheim, ULI member and president of Ladder Capital, spoke at the 2011 ULI Capital Markets Conference in New York. She discusses the state of conduit lending as well as the role and impact of new issuance in 2011.
As metro areas grow, older anchor institutions will continue to move into bigger facilities. Last month, a ULI advisory services panel offered recommendations for such a site in Buffalo. Learn how the panel’s suggestions for the Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital could determine not only the financial value of the buildings, but also the market value of properties in the surrounding community.
While other industries have fully leveraged social media, the real estate industry appears to lag behind. Is there a strained relationship between the two? Leslie Braunstein, principal of LHB Communications, speaks about how the real estate industry might have discovered how to utilize social media.
A recent poll revealed that social media are now used by the majority of adult online users. The commercial real estate industry, however, has been slow to figure out the best way to use this emergent technology. Read how going beyond Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn by creating an active presence on Foursquare, Yelp, and YouTube is poised to usher real estate into its time in the sun in 2011.
How are architects using social media? Sybil Walker Barnes, social media director for the American Institute of Architects, sits down with Urban Land magazine to discuss how architecture professionals have been using social media and how she expects the industry to use it going forward.
Evan Kraus, senior vice president of APCO Online, shares significant findings from his company’s study as well as thoughts on the rise of 4G and GPS smartphone technologies. He tells Urban Land magazine why land use professionals should take notice.
It is now 2011 and social media no longer remains on the fringes of the professional world. Help ULI develop and share feedback on your strategies for use of social media by letting us know how you are using, and will be using social media in our industry or how your employer is using, and will be using it. Take our brief 5-question survey. We will publish the results here on Urban Land.
