You certainly cannot rely on the economic prognosis courtesy of the real estate industry to explain what kind of social change is happening.
Another positive sign for construction is that publicly-traded construction companies seem to be on the leading edge of the real estate industry recovery.
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Hartz suggests that the limited supply of real estate is limiting the growth of the tech industry.
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This position is bound to raise the hackles of many major cultural institutions, from the real estate industry, and from religious groups who depend on the charitable gifts of their members, not just the 2% wealthiest Americans.
With the rise of the mortgage lending industry and the proliferation of mortgage originating sales people, mortgage pre-qualification shifted from real estate agents to mortgage reps.
However, that would leave us where we are today, not with the type of economic growth the commercial real estate industry needs.
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According to the 2012 State of the Industry Report by CoreNet Global, a corporate real estate association, the continuing demand for the workplace is to serve as a central place for collaboration.
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Within the private sector, the construction industry saw the largest number deaths, but the end of the real estate boom has contributed to a large decrease in mortality: Annual construction fatalities have fallen by more than one-third since 2006.
He became chairman of the powerful Real Estate Board of New York, an industry group, on Jan. 1.
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Some members of the real estate industry have offered financial backing to Ms. Quinn's campaign for mayor.
In a November interview with Steve Forbes, Editorial Director and Associate Publisher of Real Capital Analytics Peter Slatin, used Stuyvesant Town- Peter Cooper Village as an example of the "suffering from fallout in values, undercut by the terrible over-leveraging of many properties" that has plagued the commercial real estate industry.
An off-the-wall analogy: For a number of years, I was immersed in the real estate industry, starting out selling newly built homes.
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The CMBS market is watched closely in the commercial real-estate industry because the securities are an important source of finance.
While the restaurant industry has been hammered over the past couple of years by a consumer-spending pullback, lower real-estate and development costs and lower rents have emerged as a tailwind for those chains still in expansion mode.
The financial industry boom allowed the city and the state to spend without consequence, fattened the pockets of service industry workers and led to an unfettered local real estate development boom.
Many real estate industry players took note of the new customers the government's homebuyer tax credit brought to the table.
The regulators were concerned not only about individual banks but also about the systemic risks associated with excessive industry-wide concentrations (of commercial real estate or nontraditional mortgages) or an industry-wide pattern of certain practices (for example, in underwriting exotic mortgages).
The Cyprus real-estate industry, which represents roughly 12% of the country's gross domestic product, hasn't had much good news lately.
Michael Simonsen, CEO of Altos Research, a Mountain View, Calif. real estate research firm and the proprietor of his own widely read industry blog How's The Market?
Mr. Zell became a legend in the real-estate industry in the early 1990s when he amassed a massive portfolio of distressed property.
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Denbow has been involved with a number of industry sectors over the year, including energy, precious metals, heath care, real estate and construction.
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Caveat aside, Zuckerman gives his outlook on the real estate market and worries about how politics will influence industry over the course of 2011.
And, of course, tighter inventory and lower sales are bad news for many in the real estate industry who depend on sales.
While losses from real estate are a problem across the banking industry, they set up a potentially disastrous chain of events for small businesses and the economy in general.
Founder and President Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune in the hotel industry before getting into the space business in 1999, framed the gambit as an out-of-this-world real estate venture.
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