
Value-Add Investments in the Real Estate Industry
Value-Add Overview
You may have heard the term “value-add investment” before when referring to real estate, but what exactly is this concept? How does it work? What are some of the tools you need to be successful?
Value-add investments are an innovative process that combines the different elements of arts and science. In simple terms, value-add investments are properties...

Predicting Future Disruptive Trends in Real Estate
Embrace the Change and Become an Early Adopter
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” And there is no industry where that is truer than in the real estate industry. After all, you can control the location, the asset class, the architect, the general contractor, the target market, the capital decisions, the tenant mix. You control...

Public-Private Partnerships: A Tested Method for Today’s Opportunities
The concept of privatizing public services has the ability to create skepticism and controversy among the laymen. However, public-private partnerships (PPP) have been part of the fabric of American history since its inception. Simply put, a public-private partnership occurs when the public sector (the government) and the private sector (business or private entity) enter...

Will COVID-19 Create a Real Estate Crash…. Mitigating Risk Through Multifamily Development During A Down Cycle
With Covid-19 redefining our idea of the word “normal” and affecting all areas of life in terms of elbow bumps instead of handshakes and questioning our economic recovery, we are playing the long game. Just like the pandemic, the nature of real estate is intrinsically a long-term investment. Aggressive allocation of funds for a “quick return on investment” is not how real...

COVID-19: Pandemic! or Possibility?
COVID-19, or coronavirus, is an epidemic that has put the entire world under lockdown; shaking the foundations of the global economy and bringing down with it, people’s livelihoods. However, what the virus also brought was a tsunami of change. While this pandemic is something to be feared in terms of a health, economics and society, this change also brings an inherent,...
Banks’ New Policy: No to American Family Homeownership?
Banks’ New Policy: No to American Family Homeownership?
This article was originally written in 2011 for the Houston Business Journal.
Attempting to fix the problems in the mortgage market, Congress and the Administration need to use market forces and successful state policies as their guide, while protecting market fundamentals from over-reaction.
To protect their...