A Tale of Two Property Markets
by While commercial property owners are worried about property market, much of the commercial property market remains stable or strong. In contrast, the residential market is …
Author: Doug Cornelius
Book Review: Backyard Giants
I just finished reading Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever. It is a quirky subject, but very …
Cities are Enacting Green Building Requirements
On Earth Day, the City of Los Angeles enacted a green building ordinance. According to the Sheppard Mullin Real Estate and Construction Law Blog: The …
Book Review: The Big Over Easy
I just finished reading The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. Mr. Fforde is a literary jokester, spoofing both nursery rhymes and mystery fiction protocol, …
REITs still have a Buy Rating
In another sign that the commercial real estate sector is not in the same trouble as the residential sector, many REITs still have good ratings …
Commercial Properties Are Not Selling
Yesterday, I posted that commercial property prices are still increasing. Of course that does not mean there are many properties selling at these prices. As …
Commercial Property Prices are Still Increasing
Even though residential property prices are dropping like rocks around most of the country, commercial properties are still holding their value. The press release on …
Triple-A Failure
There is a great article by Roger Lowenstein appearing in the Sunday New York Times Magazine: Triple-A Failure. It runs through the process for converting …
Do today’s new collaboration tools make it harder for IT to wrangle corporate information, or easier?
Mostly to toot my own horn, there is a piece by Andrew Conry-Murray in Information Week: Holy Web 2.0 Herding Nightmare. I am not a …
Happy Patriot’s Day
One of the quirky Massachusetts holidays is Patriot’s Day. It is a state-wide holiday to celebrate the Battles of Lexington and Concord. (For those of …
Banks Are Keeping More Loans on Their Books
Mark Gongloff reports in WSJ.com that U.S. commercial banks are keeping more of the loans they make on their balance sheets. Total assets at U.S. …
Proposed New Tax Requirement on Real Estate Sales
The current draft of the Fiscal Year 2009 Massachusetts House Budget proposes a new obligation on real estate sales. Section 11 of H4000 Outside Sections …
Martin Kimmel
I was sad to hear that Matin Kimmel passed away. He was the “Kim” of Kimco Realty and Milton Copper was the “co”. According to …
The Zen Of Blogging
Darren Rowse pointed me to the Zen of Blogging by Hunter Nuttall. Photo by Clearly Ambiguous It starts: They say that when the student is …
Document Behaviors
With my use of wikis and the adoption of wikis at The Firm, I have been focusing a lot of attention on the behaviors towards …
Wachovia and Lender Woes
As WSJ.com is reporting, Wachovia Swings to Loss, Plans to Raise Capital. I noticed that Wachovia was retreating from some its lending relationships. The retreat …
The Case for Exotic Notes in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Fran Mastroianni of Goodwin Procter LLP, published a story in Real Estate Investment & Finance: The Case for Exotic Notes in Commercial Real Estate Transactions. …
Wikis and Happiness
Over at the Wikinomics, the Blog, Anthony Williams published this picture of the process comparing email collaboration versus wiki collaboration: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness. …
Massachusetts Tree Law
I had previously posted about the Massachusetts Rule on Tree Liability. Last month, the Massachusetts Appeals Court generated some new law on trees in the …
REsource magazine
The latest issue of Goodwin Procter’s REsource magazine has been released. Here are the articles in this issue: Green Building: Now on Firm Footingby Rachael …