Coronavirus casts shadow over commercial real estate
Trade war hangovers, election year jitters and the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that sent shockwaves through the equity markets and predictions of an ugly global slowdown: Welcome to 2020. The verdict

How online retail affects local property use
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Architects react to shaky industry index
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Rethinking the Benefits of Opportunity Zone Investment
Longer holding requirements, the continual drip of federal guidelines, and a lack of tax savings have left many would-be investors sitting out of tax-sheltering opportunity zones. A year after the

WeWork’s woes spark worry
The fallout from coworking trailblazer WeWork’s IPO wipeout and management kerfuffle is sending a wave of worry across the office landscape. WeWork dropped a proverbial bomb on landlords across its

Can region escape industrial slowdown?
The nation’s supercharged industrial real estate sector appears to be braking from its breakneck growth, after taking a battering from a prolonged government shutdown, an escalating trade war, a slowing

Busy Subcontractors Pushing Prices Skyward Call it the downside of an upturn.
South Florida construction prices are hitting record levels and commercial real estate developers, landlords and occupiers haven’t felt this type of wallet wallop since the last building boom of the

What the rise in sublets means
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Broward sees flurry of new office projects
OK, so, it is not a bona fide building boom, but it is a mounting wave washing over parts of Broward County’s new-inventory-starved office market. It is hitting when the

Move to cut business rent tax continues
The 2019 Florida legislative session is setting up to be busy for bills affecting the commercial real estate sector. Topping the industry’s priority pile again this year is further reducing

Subleasing could be a leading indicator
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Exploring the State of International Trade
Start holding your breath again. Florida’s trade-oriented economy remains in the crosshairs, with rhetoric heating up again over trade wars, tariffs and this year’s required congressional ratification of the new
