Commercial Real Estate Resources for Savvy Corporations
We’ve released our U.S. Macro Forecast for 2012 and our outlook is tentatively optimistic. Click “Read Full Story” for a summary of our findings and the link to the full report.
Accounting Standards – What’s The Latest? As a CEO or CFO, keeping an eye on the progress of the Global Accounting Standards topic will help you position your company and preserve its value. Specifically regarding your corporate real estate, an understanding of the discussion around the re-characterization of leases will benefit you in your leasing decisions. The changes being proposed primarily affect public companies but there will be a modified standard for smaller, non-public companies which is referred to as “Private-Company GAAP”.
You meet with your commercial real estate broker or talk on the phone and he gives you a market report for your area. Why? Isn’t it his job to know all those rent, vacancy and absorption numbers? Why should you care? The answers are important for your current and future business and may help you make business decisions aside from real estate.
Productivity – It’s our buzz word these days. Everyone is doing more with less. Green thinking is popular, but does it fit into business reality? Read on to learn how you can make environmental decisions with your physical space that actually improve your company’s performance … your brand, your people and your facilities.
A Tribute – 10 Years Later
– We Will Never Forget –
Click on “Read Full Story” and then the video for a moving tribute of music and photographs dedicated to the heroes and those lost on September 11, 2001.
With the volatility in the stock market last week, many of us are wondering what’s next. I’ve been writing about the increase in jobs in the economy and the venture capital boom as fundamentals pointing toward a slow but steady climb out of the recession. What should we do then with the downgrade of our U.S. credit rating and wild stock market activity last week? Should we hunker down and stop spending altogether or continue to move forward making business decisions as wisely as we can?
Our Office, Industrial and R&D reports for the second quarter are now all available. We are seeing healthy trends in…
Our Cassidy Turley Insights white paper on venture capital provides encouraging news about the economy and where the largest economic engines for the future may come. Though jobs creation dipped in May and remains the biggest concern to the economy, some of the greatest increases in office occupancy are happening in markets leading in venture capital (VC) funding and activity.
In reviewing our mid year U.S. Macro Forecast Report, several factors stood out describing where we are in the economic recovery and what industry sector may provide significant contributions to our economic engine. This post will highlight the forecast including the effects of QE2, social media technology and the latest market data. Profitability and overall U.S. rents are covered as well. Look for more regarding driving industry sectors in my next blog post on venture capital.
Depending on where you are located, you may see rent increases as the labor markets begin to tighten. Our latest Cassidy Turley Employment Tracker 2011 presents the following data:
– The Top 5 Job Producing Metros
– An Employment Picture showing change in employment across the U.S.
– Regional Job Market Summaries across the country