Following the Economists Panel was the Sports Panel. Key characters from this group were Michael Bidwill, Arizona Cardinals; Jerry Colangelo, JDM Partners; Steve Patterson, ASU; Jason Rowley, Phoenix Suns; moderated by Grady Gammage, Jr.
This was a very interesting panel, and one that I have never seen before. We had the owner of the NFL Team, the former [...]

There is something of a mystery surrounding the mechanics of Senior Construction Loans. Here’s our plain-English attempt to provide better clarity.
1. The Senior Construction Loan is not drawn down in a lump sum at Time 0 as is the case with an Acquisition loan for an existing income-producing property. Rather, it is drawn down from [...]

Part 1 of this interview introduced Popularise and Fundrise, which came directly out of Ben Miller’s and his partners’ experience as real estate developers.

Popularise, came out of a debate about what tenant should go into a building, so Ben and his partners created Popularise to ask the customers, local residents, and other stakeholders to help figure out how [...]

         
REFM: Ben, you are the founder of two exciting businesses, Popularise and Fundrise, that bring power to the people. What were the inspiration and impetus for the founding of the Rise companies?
Ben Miller: Both Popularise and Fundrise come directly out of our experience as real estate developers. In each case, we ran into a problem while in development [...]

                                          
As the economy starts to slowly turn around, businesses are still finding themselves in a quandry with the same questions. Where have all the customers gone?  And how do we find them?
During recessions traditionally consumers have tightened their belts, but businesses always believed they’d come back. But when consumers close their wallets, no amount [...]

Check out this FREE 47-minute video of REFM’s new 2-day course, Principles of Commercial Real Estate Finance
This video covers the following:

Module 1 - Risks And Opportunities; What Is Real Estate?; Global Real Estate
Module 2 - Time Value of Money and Discounted Cash Flow; Real Estate Cycles

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Module 3 - Fundamentals of Commercial Leases

Accompanying Excel exhibits [...]

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance long-term forecast for the US photovoltaic market shows commercial deployment of PV systems continuing to increase faster than those in the residential market. Bloomberg predicts, however, a compounded annual growth rate for residential and commercial together to be about 22 percent through 2020.
Many may ask, “Where’s the investment going to [...]

I’ve been pretty vocal about planning a marketing program and reviewing it at least annually. I have been especially emphatic about the communications portion of that effort. You should have measurement goals. Measurement must be a consideration in the planning process up-front. The tricky part is that so much of what falls within a typical [...]

Recently, I received my digital Architect magazine, and while I was reviewing it, one story hit me like a ton of bricks. It is no secret; I own a recruiting/staffing agency, not an architectural firm. What so surprised me about the story was that it hit me where I live, MY small recruiting business.
The article is about [...]

What are the three characteristics of an excellent real estate analyst?

A strong facility with Excel - While this goes without saying, one of the fundamental problems when employers try to evaluate candidate Excel skills is that when they ask candidates in an interview how their Excel skills are, all of the candidates naturally say, “They’re great!” And can [...]