Today’s Top 5 Headlines and their Links on CRE, Atlanta Office Space, Green, and all things interesting
Today’s Top Headlines and the Links to their Articles (January 6th, 2010):
- Commercial Real Estate Bubble Bursting? – Video on Zisler Capital Partners CEO Randall Zisler on the continued troubles in the commercial real-estate market.
- Are Commercial Real Estate ETFs At The Bottom? - Investors have been shunning the commercial real estate sectors like the plague as desolate commercial buildings fail to attract tenants. Some believe, however, that the time is ripe for putting money back into the commercial real estate sector-related exchange traded funds (ETFs).
- Building Retrofit Results in 70% Drop in Energy Use, 70% Increase in Staff Utilization - After a radical retrofit, a dilapidated 1960s-era office building in Winchester, England, boasts a 70 percent drop in energy consumption, a 70 percent increase in staff utilization and a 30 percent reduction in overall office space needed, meaning that excess office space can be leased out. This is a big time boast, but exciting if true.
- Hard times for Gwinnett’s master of the deal - Wayne Mason, the real estate tycoon who transformed Gwinnett County, is being sued by two banks for more than $15 million. He lost big money as an investor in an Atlanta bank that recently failed. Some of Mason’s real estate investments across Georgia and the Southeast founder.
- The Next Decade’s Top Sustainability Trends - What trends are likely the next ten years? Check out the link to find out, it is pretty interesting stuff to think about for 2010.
