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Market correction? Perhaps

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New board for NAIOP NAIOP South Florida, a commercial real estate development organization, has announced the following officers and executive committee for its 2019 board of directors: • President: Butters Realty & Management executive vice president and office leasing director Darcie Lunsford. (Left). • President-elect: Duke Realty vice president Stephanie Rodriguez. • Secretary: Legacy Bank of Florida senior vice president of commercial lending Patricia Bedley. • Treasurer: Raymond James Financial adviser Marc Kopelman.
Opportunity Zones

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The Death of the Office

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Demand Drivers and Hefty Costs

By Darcie Lansford It might be hard to fathom, with 1.1 billion square feet of those three-story, tilt-wall, big boxes that have been built since the Great Recession, that what America

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Industrial Real Estate Still Shines, Despite Tariff Concerns

By Darcie Lansford Trade wars. Tariffs. Geopolitical meltdowns. South Florida’s commercial real estate sector shrugs off a plethora of concerns of a President Donald Trump-induced economic retraction like an Ebenezer

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South Florida’s Growing Foreign Trade Zone

By Darcie Lunsford The phones at IMS Worldwide, a Houston-based consulting firm that helps companies, local governments and real estate developers establish and operate foreign trade zones nationally, have been

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Interest rates rise, sales volume falls

By Darcie Lunsford There are times you want to set trends. Then there are times you simply want to follow them. And in the first quarter, South Florida broke out

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The rising demand for industrial space

South Florida and the nation’s other supercharged industrial real estate markets are poised to get another shot of adrenaline. A boom in e-commerce fulfillment centers and smaller, in-town, last-mile depots

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Proposed Trade Policy Would Affect Industry

By Darcie Lunsford The Trump administration’s shift from talking about reversing U.S. trade policy and toppling trade pacts to levying tariffs and engaging in high-stakes brinksmanship has sent a wave

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For Now, Florida’s Growth Continues to Defy Forecasters

By Darcie Lunsford If it feels as though there is more commercial development going on these days, there is—despite so many experts saying (at least before December’s big tax-cut package)

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Industry remains a substantial driver

All eyes remain on South Florida’s industrial sector as the dazzling belle of commercial real estate’s bull-market ball. Miami-Dade County’s fourth-quarter industrial rents hit an all-time high, ending the year

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Tax Reform Act leaves CRE interests optimistic

By Darcie Lunsford Entering the fourth quarter of 2017, enthusiasm was waning among commercial real estate insiders over how much runway the third-longest economic expansion in the nation’s history had

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