GLG News by Land Acquisition Experts (US)

The Mexico resort/retirement/second home industry is suffering as buyers from the U.S. are on the sidelines. Some thirty Baja California and Sea of Cortez developments in planning are predicted to stall on the boards in the coming period. Prices have escalated at 15% annually in recent years, but no...

I like the content of this article except that I believe the suffering will be greater than depicted by the pros for apartments, office buildings and warehousing (the biggest part of the current industrial construction). In addition, I have been hearing for the current development cycle that the shopping...

Blackstone has made the biggest bets in the history of commercial real estate and, now that they have gone public, we all get to see the results in greater detail. As to the Equity Office portfolio purchased from Sam Zell, the initial sales in the major markets have been consummated and the balance...

Sacramento is a unique large metro area tied to Northern California Bay Area’s coastal communities by commuting distances and to California’s Central Valley by it’s location n the northern portion of that 500 mile long N/S by 100 mile E/W area. The Bay Area is the home of Silicon alley with its world...

     The NAHB has predicted that the real estate downturn will bottom in the first or second quarter of 2008. Several recent studies have indicated that the balance in housing “fundamentals” may be slowly returning to normal.        These studies...

Phoenix metro area employment and population growth will slow in 2008.  Consequently, so will demand for new housing, but how much will it slow?  How do you forecast employment growth?

Mr. Burns makes two assumption errors in what is otherwise an outstanding analysis regarding the "near-future" of condominium development. His assumption regarding  attitudes towards HOA's is incorrect ... as is his statement that the Hi-Rise condo market in Las Vegas will succumb to the current...

This Christmas season is bringing a historically earlier opening of the holiday season promotional effort. The major retailers are doing everything they can to catch the shopper early through pricing wars and heavy marketing. Each wants to get a leg up on consumer shopping urges and capture the second...

The U.S. is going to do a major portion of the thinking for the world, prepare its economic plans and source its finances if the country is to continue its primary world power status. Recent results indicate that the growing knowledge economies will feature a world class international airport and/or...

When making your determination on the future of the economy, how many units will be sold next year, or how many people will move to Phoenix, consider how banks have reacted to bad news this year; the statistics above; and how lenders may react to bad news next year.