Real Estate Market

Urban Multifamily Leading Real Estate Market Opportunities

Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneors, now the executive chairman of CityView, makes the case for urban markets as the driving force of the real estate market (including investment from foreign investors) in the near future.
2 August 2011 - 10:00am
The Planning Report

Reviving the Real Estate Market with Parks

The idea of tuning toxic or polluted sites into parks has been creating new green spaces in cities throughout the country. It's also re-starting the real estate market.
22 June 2011 - 9:00am
THE DIRT

Building Takes More Realistic Pace in Dubai

Once the site of a seemingly endless string of outlandish building projects, Dubai has shaken off the dust from the market crash and resumed building less flashy projects at a steadier pace.
30 September 2010 - 6:00am
The New York Times

Market Crash Leaves L.A. Flush With High-Priced Plots

Bought at the height of the real estate market and intended for conversion into high-priced luxury apartment buildings, empty plots of land are littered throughout Los Angeles, undeveloped and quietly back on the market at greatly reduced prices.
20 April 2010 - 8:00am
Los Angeles Times

Dongtan Eco-City: A Model of Sustainability?

Dongtan Eco City was planned for completion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. By that time, 5,000 people should be living there. However, the planned housing, water taxis, sewage‐recycling plant and energy park all failed to materialize.
12 January 2010 - 12:00pm
The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal

Public Art Thrives in Hard Times in Manhattan

A public art park has sprung up on a corner in Manhattan on loan from a local developer waiting to build on the land.
18 September 2009 - 10:00am
The New York Times

The Best Laid Plans of New York City's Building Boom

This slideshow from New York looks at a handful of residential and office buildings in New York City that have either stalled or completely halted development.
22 April 2009 - 8:00am
New York

Slow Response to Changing World From Real Estate Industry

The real estate industry has been slow to realize the development world is changing, according to Scott Polikov who writes that "the fundamentals of the 'bedroom community' economy have collapsed."
1 September 2008 - 9:00am
Citiwire
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